On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 09:40 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote:
> Hans de Graaff wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Ruby MRI 2.0 has been retired by upstream in February 2016.[1]
> > We remove Ruby MRI 2.0 support from the tree now. Ruby MRI 2.1
> > remains
> > activated in base profile's RUBY_TARGETS variable by default.
> 
> Hmmm... what about dependencies?
> 
> Are they obsolete, too? Should I just "emerge -C =ruby-2.0.0_p648"?
> Or is there some kind of "ruby-cleaner" (like "perl-cleaner") to
> switch all that to ruby 2.1? How to proceed in order to get a
> consistent 2.1 installation? As a normal user, I'd get stuck at
> this point without further instructions...

Most dependencies are not obsolete, although installing them with the
ruby20 target is. We don't have a ruby-cleaner tool, but re-installing
packages with the -N flag of emerge should work. After doing that
ruby:2.0 can be depcleaned. I've added this to the news item:

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Packages can be reinstalled for ruby21 only by using the -N option of
emerge:

  emerge -uvDNq world
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Hans

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