On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: > Hi list, > > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean > out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting > output that I haven't seen before: > > The folowing Deprecated installed packages were found > media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1 > dev-python/reportlab-2.3-r1 > app-i18n/gcin-1.4.7_pre17 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r9 > dev-perl/URI-1.53 > dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.22 > > I don't see anything about this feature in 'man eclean'; does anyone know > what this is all about?
It means those package version are deprecated and you are encouraged to upgrade them. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
