I usually do a emerge --clean rsync per "general recommendations" But this now has blown up. I have several apps that I use that were installed, and have updated just fine until I did my --clean rsync today from the mirrors. as an example, for some reason, the follwoing have disappeared from app-misc: units gperiodic (my son uses periodic chart) ithought euler These were installed a whiel back and have been through the update jsut fine until today. God only knows what welse got dumped from the portage tree without any notice. Are these apps oficially not part of portage anymore? If so, where should I look for notification when you are dropping packages out of portage? If not, then please look at your mirroring and the portage tree - its messed up pretty bad in terms do throwing away apps that were there just 3 days ago.
Hi! A new portage category, app-sci, has been created for scientific, engineering and math applications. You will find that the following three apps have been moved there. Other sci, eng and math apps will be making the move in the near future. units gperiodic euler I just 'emerge --clean rsync'd and the following is still in app-misc. ithought
