On 03/26/2017 06:27 PM, wabe wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> On 03/26/2017 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 26/03/2017 23:14, the...@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
Thank you Wabe, yes that was it. Not the list is much smaller and makes sense. -- Thelma
