Bug 440512

Summary:	net-im/skype-4.0.0.8-r1: some elog messages should only be shown for the first install.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	poletti.marco
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	trivial	CC:	joost
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	440214

Description poletti.marco 2012-10-31 10:59:24 UTC

Disclaimer: this bug has been filed in a semi-automated manner.

When emerging the package net-im/skype-4.0.0.8-r1, the following elog messages are displayed:

 * For webcam support, see "LD_PRELOAD" section of "README.lib" document provided by
 * media-libs/libv4l package and "README" document of this package.
 * You can install app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs package for the 32bit
 * libraries from the media-libs/libv4l package.

Such messages should only be displayed when the package is a new install.
These situations can be checked in the ebuild as follows:

if ! has_version 'net-im/skype'; then

See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.

Comment 1 J. Roeleveld 2014-08-27 05:33:51 UTC

I believe this bug can be closed as it's for an older version.
Additionally, Skype versions before 4.3 can no longer connect.
(I received the email about this in Dutch, please let me know if you want a copy)