eroen@occam ~ $ portageq metadata / ebuild sys-apps/less-497 SRC_URI http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-497.tar.gz eroen@occam ~ $ curl -Iv http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-497.tar.gz * Trying 104.200.21.227... * TCP_NODELAY set * Connected to www.greenwoodsoftware.com (104.200.21.227) port 80 (#0) > HEAD /less/less-497.tar.gz HTTP/1.1 > Host: www.greenwoodsoftware.com > User-Agent: curl/7.54.0 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found < Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:02:50 GMT Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:02:50 GMT < Server: Apache/2 Server: Apache/2 < Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:35:38 GMT Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:35:38 GMT < ETag: "106-48c8bd6be9680" ETag: "106-48c8bd6be9680" < Accept-Ranges: bytes Accept-Ranges: bytes < Content-Length: 262 Content-Length: 262 < Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent < Content-Type: text/html Content-Type: text/html < * Connection #0 to host www.greenwoodsoftware.com left intact
this bug here contains explanation why it's removed and gentoo should use less-487 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614942
I guess it is not the case anymore, the version has been removed for a long time, new ones do not have this problem
