Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:13:32PM +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?. > > If you're looking at long-term, I would suggest installing a separate > machine or chroot or VM, which will not be updated. If you keep it long > enough, the main system is going to get to the point where either > hedgewars doesn't work or your regular apps don't work. >
This could be an easier route than trying to maintain the ebuild locally, as Rich noted. Thanks, I'll investigate on both routes. raffaele
