Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED]eix-test-obsolete

On 03/26/2017 06:27 PM, wabe wrote:
> thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>
>> On 03/26/2017 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2017 23:14, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>>>> I'm in a process of clean-up my packages.
>>>> Running:  eix-test-obsolete
>>>>
>>>> Shows a lot of valuable information, but I can not decode entries
>>>> in:
>>>>
>>>> Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):
>>>> ...
>>>> example
>>>> [?] app-editors/nano (2.6.3@03/25/2017 -> 2.3.1-r2): GNU GPL'd Pico
>>>> clone with more functionality
>>>>
>>>> I've nano-2.6.3 installed. What does the "-> 2.3.1-r2" indicates?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh come on Thelma, really?
>>>
>>>
>>> Did you even bother to read the eix man page? This is getting
>>> tiresome. Please just stop it, gentoo-user is not your personal
>>> Google clone or a quasi-brain you can tap for any answer without
>>> doing some thinking of your own
>>>
>>> A simple eix nano would have told you everything:
>>>
>>> It's in section "installed packages not in database"
>>> Latest stable nano is 2.6.3. You have 2.3.1-r2
>>
>> Apology Alan, but this still isn't very clear to me.
>> Yes, I did check with "eix nano" and it showed that I had latest
>> version installed.
>>
>> Even "emerge -Ca nano" showed I had no prior version installed.
>> So am still confused why is it has "-> 2.3.1-r2"
>>
>> I figured it must be a pointer to an older version but since I had a
>> newest version installed why pointer to an older version?
>>
>> man eix only shows "eix-test-obsolete" is equivalent to eix -tTc
>
> Maybe an eix-update will help.
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe

Thank you Wabe, yes that was it. Not the list is much smaller and makes
sense.

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Thelma