Please provide any feedback on the upcoming deprecation and removal of
app-portage/gentoolkit-dev with the upcoming stabilization of
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0 (Bug 627350)
Regards,
Paul
Title: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation/removal
Author: Paul Varner <[email protected]>
Posted: 2017-09-19
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
The app-portage/gentoolkit-dev package has been deprecated and the ebump,
ekeyword and imlate have been moved to the app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0
package. With the upcoming marking of >=app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0 stable,
users will need to take action since gentoolkit-dev and those versions of
gentoolkit block each other.
In order to upgrade to the new version of gentoolkit, you will need to resolve
the blocks. In many cases, removing app-portage/gentoolkit-dev from the world
set will allow Portage to automatically resolve the blockers and remove
gentoolkit-dev. You can remove it from world using the following command.
emerge --deselect app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
If that fails to work, then unmerge the gentoolkit-dev package with
emerge --unmerge app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
Once >=app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0 is stabilized, the remaining gentoolkit-dev
releases will be masked for removal and subsequent tree-cleaning.
