On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 18:21:23 +0200, gevisz wrote:

> $ eix gvim
> [I] app-editors/gvim
>      Available versions:  8.0.0106 ~8.0.0386 **9999 {acl aqua cscope
> debug gnome gtk gtk3 lua luajit motif neXt netbeans nls perl python
> racket ruby selinux session tcl PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4
> python3_5 python3_6"}
>      Installed versions:  8.0.0106(05:36:17 PM 12/11/2016)(acl gtk
> python session -aqua -cscope -debug -gnome -gtk3 -lua -luajit -motif
> -neXt -netbeans -nls -perl -racket -ruby -selinux -tcl
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_5")
>      Homepage:            http://www.vim.org/ https://github.com/vim/vim
>      Description:         GUI version of the Vim text editor
> 
> So, in my portage tree currently there is one stable gvim package with
> version  8.0.0106
> and one unstable gvim package, with version 8.0.0386.
> 
> Why portage force me to unmask an unstable version of the package then?
> 
> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask
> world --exclude chromiumg
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

> [ebuild     U  ] app-editors/vim-8.0.0386 [8.0.0106]
> PYTHON_TARGETS="(-python3_6)"
> [ebuild  NS    ] virtual/libusb-0-r2 [1-r2] ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)"
> [ebuild     U  ] app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20170225 [20160530]
> [ebuild     U ~] app-editors/gvim-8.0.0386 [8.0.0106]

Because vim-8.0.0386 is stable and, presumably, the vim and gvim versions
must match. I would suggest filing a stabilisation bug for gvim, or just
use emacs...


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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