Removing is due to lack of required features for some popular apps and bug #117898.
With this removal we also want to wipe out the virtual/libpcap. So if any of your ebuilds uses it, change it to net-libs/libpcap instead. We'll do this on our own if there are any ones left in two weeks to avoid tree breakage.
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