portage joke

[Dominique_71]

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# emerge -a firefox
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "firefox" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-client/firefox-13.0::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> (15 Jul 2012)
# Replaced by the new 4.8.4 release of kde-base/konqueror.
# Removal in 30 days.

- www-client/firefox-13.0 ::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

Amazing! Firefox will soon be out of gentoo. I hope this is a joke!

In fact, this doesn't look to be a joke, even if the real message is the following:

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# emerge -a transset-df

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "transset-df" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- x11-misc/transset-df-6::x-test (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> (25 Jun 2012)
# Replaced by the new 1.0.0 release of x11-apps/transset.
# Removal in 30 days.

- x11-misc/transset-df-6::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

I copied the ebuild over my personal test overlay. Just in case this is not a joke!

See bug426550

[baaann]

Looking at

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/transset/

it appears that it is a rationalisation of code on Freedesktop

Branch Commit message Author Age
master Fix program name in usage information, transset instead of transset-df. Arnaud Fontaine 5 weeks

[John R. Graham]

No, no, no. That's just a typo that ssuominen made. In fact, deep laid plans are under way by the Gentoo developers to standardize on Internet Explorer.

- John

[Genone]

According to the commit history the -df code has been merged into transset, so maybe you should verify that before filing reports.

[Dominique_71]

For me, as user, the reference is the doc of both software. The man page of transset, as we can see this is the last 1.0.0 version:

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TRANSSET(1)                                                        TRANSSET(1)



NAME
       transset - Set transparency on a window

SYNOPSIS
       transset [-d display] n

DESCRIPTION
       transset  is a simple program for X servers supporting the XFIXES, DAM‐
       AGE, and COMPOSITE extensions.  It lets the user set  the  transparency
       on a window.

OPTIONS
       n      Where  n  is  a number from 0 to 1, zero being transparent and 1
              being opaque

BUGS
       Probably.   Please  report  any  you  find  to   https://bugs.freedesk‐
       top.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg.

AUTHORS
       Matthew Hawn



X Version 11                    transset 1.0.0                     TRANSSET(1)

The help of transset-df:

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: transset-df --help
usage: transset-df [-options ...] [opacity]
options:
    -h, --help           display this message
    -t, --toggle         force toggle of opacity
    -c, --click          select by clicking on window (default)
    -p, --point          select the window currently under the cursor
    -a, --actual         select the actual window
    -n, --name NAME      select by name, NAME is matched as regular expression
    --no-regex           don't use regular expression for matching name
    -i, --id             select by window id
        --inc            increase by the given opacity
        --dec            decrease by given opacity
    -m, --min OPACITY    minimum possible opacity (default = 0)
    -x, --max OPACITY    maximum possible opacity (default = 1)
    -v, --verbose        print some debug info
    -V, --version        print version number

And yes, you are right, if I run the following and non documented transset command:

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transset --help
usage: transset [-options ...] [opacity]
options:
    -h, --help           display this message
    -t, --toggle         force toggle of opacity
    -c, --click          select by clicking on window  (default)
    -p, --point          select the window currently under the cursor
    -a, --actual         select the actual window
    -n, --name NAME      select by name, NAME is matched as regular expression
    --no-regex           don't use regular expression for matching name
    -i, --id             select by window id
        --inc            increase by the given opacity
        --dec            decrease by given opacity
    -m, --min OPACITY    minimum possible opacity  (default = 0)
    -x, --max OPACITY    maximum possible opacity  (default = 1)
    -v, --verbose        print some debug info
    -V, --version        print version number

I didn't try it before, because it is not documented into the man page. So, I will change this bug into a man page issue.

[khayyam]

No, no, no. That's just a typo that ssuominen made. In fact, deep laid plans are under way by the Gentoo developers to standardize on Internet Explorer.

John .. those developers that survived the recent back-to-the-future coup have infact about-faced and are fully behind Generalisimo Larry in the promotion of Mosaic :)

best ... khay