luc@amd64 ~ $ eix dev-java/msv [?] dev-java/msv Available versions: 2022.7^t {doc source test} Installed versions: 20130601(19:21:03 24/08/2022)(-doc -source) Homepage: https://github.com/xmlark/msv/msv-core Description: Multi-Schema Validator Core package whereas portage tag for downgrade: mrgp -v dev-java/msv * Failed to change nice value to '-9' * [Errno 1] Operation not permitted These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ... ... .. .... done! [ebuild UD ] dev-java/msv-2022.7::gentoo [20130601::gentoo] USE="-doc -source -test%" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 KiBs Reproducible: Always
The D symbol was intentionally changed to ? because it used to confuse people: eix is not a package manager (in particular, it has no dependency resolution), and the symbol merily means that the current version could not be re-installed without a configuration change, and that there is no newer version instead which can. This can also mean, e.g., that the whole package should be uninstalled.
Fair enough, Let's close it.
