On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 17:15 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> I was investigating what needs to be done to drop guile-1.8 from the
> tree (bug 590558, 587252). sci-chemistry/coot is one of the blocking
> packages (bug 591410). It has a version bump request open for 18
> months (bug 639760) and hasn't been maintained in as long. The new
> version doesn't appear to work with guile-2.0 either, though it seems
> that it may be possible to build without guile? Something for a
> maintainer...
>
> If we just drop it, we can remove the following dependencies as well:
>
> sci-chemistry/coot (no rev deps)
> sci-libs/coot-data (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot)
> sci-libs/ssm (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot)
> sci-libs/gpp4 (no rev deps)
> sci-libs/cctbx (no rev deps)
> sci-libs/clipper (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot, sci-libs/cctbx)
> sci-libs/libccp4 (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot, sci-
> libs/{clipper,ssm}
> sci-libs/monomer-db (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot)
> sci-libs/mmdb (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot,
> sci-libs/{clipper,gpp4,libcpp4,ssm}
> sci-chemistry/reduce (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot)
> dev-scheme/guile-gui (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot; dead home page)
> dev-scheme/guile-www (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot)
> dev-scheme/net-http (rev deps: sci-chemistry/coot; dead home page)
> x11-libs/guile-gtk (rev deps: dev-scheme/guile-gui, dev-scheme/guile-
> gui)
>
> Thoughts?
Go ahead, ship it!
