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.


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