On Friday, February 27, 2015 11:45:52 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > You can look in the packages Changelog in the portage tree, perhaps > there's an entry there explaining why the old version was removed.
It only says "Version bump. Removed old" > ebuilds are never truly lost, if you still have it installed the ebuild > is stored in /var/db. If not, you can find it in the gentoo attic > (google can help), download it and put it in your local overlay. Mask > the versions you don't want and portage will ensure your local copy > stays installed. Thanks, I found it on the attic, I didn't know you could get deleted ebuilds from it. I think it would be best if portage didn't downgrade packages automatically. -- Fernando Rodriguez
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