On Sat, 18 October 2014, at 8:03 am, Gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have unpacked your patches to /etc/portage/patches as described here: > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches > and then run # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin > > After restarting xfce4, the weather-plugin started to work. Thank you. > > Nevertheless, just > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world > instead of # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin > did not worked. I think that's because the ebuild's version number didn't change. Hence the package wasn't included when you told portage to run an update - when you told portage explicitly to install the latest xfce4-weather-plugin it found the patches. Stroller.