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From: wabe <wabenbau@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obsolete
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:28:32
Message-Id: 20170327022748.5b4496c0@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obsolete by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2
3 > On 03/26/2017 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 > > On 26/03/2017 23:14, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
5 > >> I'm in a process of clean-up my packages.
6 > >> Running: eix-test-obsolete
7 > >>
8 > >> Shows a lot of valuable information, but I can not decode entries
9 > >> in:
10 > >>
11 > >> Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):
12 > >> ...
13 > >> example
14 > >> [?] app-editors/nano (2.6.3@03/25/2017 -> 2.3.1-r2): GNU GPL'd Pico
15 > >> clone with more functionality
16 > >>
17 > >> I've nano-2.6.3 installed. What does the "-> 2.3.1-r2" indicates?
18 > >>
19 > >
20 > >
21 > >
22 > > Oh come on Thelma, really?
23 > >
24 > >
25 > > Did you even bother to read the eix man page? This is getting
26 > > tiresome. Please just stop it, gentoo-user is not your personal
27 > > Google clone or a quasi-brain you can tap for any answer without
28 > > doing some thinking of your own
29 > >
30 > > A simple eix nano would have told you everything:
31 > >
32 > > It's in section "installed packages not in database"
33 > > Latest stable nano is 2.6.3. You have 2.3.1-r2
34 >
35 > Apology Alan, but this still isn't very clear to me.
36 > Yes, I did check with "eix nano" and it showed that I had latest
37 > version installed.
38 >
39 > Even "emerge -Ca nano" showed I had no prior version installed.
40 > So am still confused why is it has "-> 2.3.1-r2"
41 >
42 > I figured it must be a pointer to an older version but since I had a
43 > newest version installed why pointer to an older version?
44 >
45 > man eix only shows "eix-test-obsolete" is equivalent to eix -tTc
46
47 Maybe an eix-update will help.
48
49 --
50 Regards
51 wabe

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