On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:54:04AM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Uhhh yeah... not developed anymore... anyone know why that is?
To your original question (I seem to have lost the post, so this reply is a little bit out of order in terms of threading. Sorry!) Sometimes packages that are not developed anymore are still kept in portage if they work well enough. In this case, the developers have determined that udept does not work with EAPI > 0, which means it won't play well with >=portage-2.1.6 http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org/msg31927.html As to the question of "why that is"... I guess the author got bored? The link to the package catmur.co.uk/gentoo/udept is a dead link now (404s) I am not even sure if the original author can be reached at the e-mail address given by Dirk. And besides, I am not sure if the tool is still useful. Worldfile pruning can be accomplished with a 5 line bash script (though I strongly suggest user intervention rather than automating the process), and --depclean has gotten so smart that I don't really think udept can out-perform it. For files not maintained by portage, I can use findcruft. Whatever else functionality it includes I have never found the use of. I don't think I will miss it too much when it is gone. Best, W -- What's far more likely is that the virgin birth is a later addition to the story of Jesus. In comic book terminology, this is a retroactive alteration of the continuity, or "retcon". "Hm... how do we explain the origin of Jesus' amazing superpowers? How is he able to walk on water, cure leprosy, and feed multitudes using a single loaf of bread, if he's just some average Jew? It's just not plausible, our audience will never buy it. I KNOW! We have a special "Origins of Jesus" issue in the Bible, where we reveal that ACTUALLY, Jesus is the son of God! Now, the fact that he has these amazing superpowers makes sense!" It's exactly like how Marvel went back and created a backstory to explain the origins of the super-powers of the X-men. In the case of Marvel, alien visitors altered the DNA of ancient humans which resulted in mutants like Wolverine. In the case of the Catholic Church, a super-powerful being impregnates Jesus' mom. It's a really ancient theme. If you recall many of Greek heroes, such as Hercules, had gods for parents, which explained why they were so powerful. Achilles was more like the Incredible Hulk, in that exposure to magic (the waters of the River Styx in the case of Achilles, gamma rays in the case of the Hulk) give them their powers. But Odysseus is like Batman- he doesn't have any superpowers, he's just clever. ~flyingsquid (813711) on /. cid #22838002 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 759 days, 14:49
