Bug 345753 – Unmask app-portage/flagedit

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300104
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description aditsu 2010-11-16 11:58:31 UTC]

I noticed this message today:

!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- app-portage/flagedit-0.0.8 (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Torsten Veller <[e-mail]> (11 Nov 2010)
# Masked for removal. Unmaintained with bugs
# (#162753,#196552,#225071,#297650,#300104,#326099)
# app-portage/flaggie can be used as an alternative.

However, none of the bugs mentioned are about flagedit. I also did a search and couldn't find any single bug reported against flagedit. I don't see any reason for removal.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 aditsu 2010-11-16 12:03:48 UTC]

Furthermore, the recommended alternative (flaggie) is keyword masked.

[Comment 2 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-11-16 12:39:37 UTC]

​​​​​​​flagedit depends on dev-util/libconf.
If libconf is masked, flagedit must be masked too.

No maintainer + no upstream + bugs then removal is a valid option.


(In reply to comment #1)
> Furthermore, the recommended alternative (flaggie) is keyword masked.

You can keyword it without flagedit or flaggie.

[Comment 3 aditsu 2010-11-16 20:07:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> ​​​​​​​flagedit depends on dev-util/libconf.
> If libconf is masked, flagedit must be masked too.

Oh, I didn't realize it was because of that. The message didn't mention libconf.
Well, I guess it makes sense then.

> You can keyword it without flagedit or flaggie.

I know, I just meant that I was expecting the alternative to be marked stable.

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-11-16 21:24:15 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 300104 ***