FreeCAD was last-rited more than half a year ago, but actual removal was put on hold because it still got several users, judging by bug participation, and at one time we even got the dreaded qtwebkit:4 dependency patched out. At that point however we had already moved on to working on Qt4 removal - masking of which is now only days away.
# Andreas Sturmlechner <[email protected]> (16 Nov 2017) # Depends on dead Qt4. Last-rites on hold for chance of Qt5-port. Bug #620702 <media-gfx/freecad-0.17 However, neither the original maintainer nor solid work on the necessary dependencies have so far materialised in the bugs or the Gentoo ebuild repository. The following bugs need to be solved -at least- to keep FreeCAD available: 1) New package: sci-libs/libmed (look at science or fordfrog's overlay): https://bugs.gentoo.org/597768 2) sci-libs/opencascade-7.2.0 version bump: https://bugs.gentoo.org/610362 3) dev-python/pyside:2, dev-python/pyside-tools:2, dev-python/shiboken:2 (live versions available in qt overlay) need to be worked on to getting into tree: https://bugs.gentoo.org/624682 4) media-gfx/freecad-0.17 version bump (switch to qt5): The most promising version of a 9999 ebuild may be found in fordfrog overlay: https://bugs.gentoo.org/622726 Note that FreeCAD seems to have always been notoriously hard to package, so it needs someone with dedication to work on it. If not, it will be gone together with Qt4 rather soon, though I am sure it can have a second life on someone's overlay even then. Regards, Andreas
