Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:13:32 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to >> dependency on deprecated QT4. >> >> I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which >> adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose this will not be >> sufficient to continue using/building the game. Once the dependencies >> will go out of tree also there will be little chance to rebuild the >> game if necessary, right?. > > Right, so copy the dependencies to your overlay too. Portage will warn > you when they are slated for removal.
Which I suppose means the packages listed under RDEPEND and DEPEND in the ebuild. Ok, should be manageable. thanks, raffaele