package early removal, stable ebuild undercovered tweaking

[CaptainBlood]

media-gfx/freecad-0.21.2-r3 removal and replacement to qt6 only version conflicts with sci-physics/geant.

What's the rationale breaking rhe tree?
Is there any internal tool to prevent such a situation to occur?

As a result it prevents

[asturm]

[CaptainBlood]

Nice heads-up for unmasking option.

However media-gfx/freecad could have kept qt5 as default with unmasked qt6 option.
It would have bring a better continuity to the upgrade process.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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[asturm]

No.

[Ionen]

Getting rid of pyside2 was way overdue, that package been nothing but problems and it really had to go.

I do agree that the current vtk packaging for USE=qt5/qt6 (causing your issue) is pretty trash though, unfortunately nothing really been moving on that end... albeit I vaguely recall there was talk that the next version won't even support qt5 so.

[CaptainBlood]

Manually required

[Zucca]

@CaptainBlood: You're swimming against the stream.

[Hu]

[sam_]

In future, can you please avoid using terms like "zealots" and assuming something is broken, and instead just ask about how to proceed?

[CaptainBlood]

As far as Guideline section 4 is concerned,

[sam_]

All I'm asking for is politeness. No need for that.

[asturm]

We would be so rich if smugness could somehow be turned into ebuilds...

[eschwartz]

[CaptainBlood]

[eschwartz]

[CaptainBlood]

[CaptainBlood]

Oh wait,

I've been requested an ebuild bout 10 days ago.

Not yet published...

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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USE="-* ..." in /etc/portage/make.conf here, i.e. a countermeasure to portage implicit braces, belt & diaper paradigm
LT: "I've been doing a passable imitation of the Fontana di Trevi, except my medium is mucus. Sooo much mucus. "

[CaptainBlood]

[Hu]

[asturm]

Here's a person, proudly proclaiming

[Naib]

As an alternative if the defaults run counter to local configuration... Flatpak and/or appimage
I still run Freecad from the appimage because well... previously it was qt4 and thus was removed from the tree and then kept track of the alpha's and beta's .. then it still relied upon py27 as a BDEP... It still is a PITA to build (with OpenNI2 struggling to build... https://bugs.gentoo.org/895034)
Likewise the appimage was useful while the version1 was in release candidate

THUS... why fight something that is trying to be consistent with everything else and either align OR use an alternative source
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[mrbassie]

^ Who caught you fishing, what was it, lead weights, barbed hooks or something?
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[CaptainBlood]