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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obsolete
From:       wabe <wabenbau () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-03-27 0:27:48
Message-ID: 20170327022748.5b4496c0 () hal9000 ! localdomain
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thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:

> On 03/26/2017 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 26/03/2017 23:14, thelma@sys-concept.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

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