For a few binary-only applications, I, for one, still need qt3 libs for my amd64 multilib system. After updating my system, the new packages for emul-linux-x86-qtlibs have only qt4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge the new emul-linux-x86-qtlibs 2. find an empty /usr/qt/3/lib32 Actual Results: Only qt-3 libs are available. Expected Results: Either a USE flag to pull in qt3 libs for this package should be in place, or a new package should come into the tree with the qt3 libs. the /usr/qt/3/lib32 directory is created, it seems, but without anything in it.
Qt3 is in process of being deprecated, see bug 283429. Also, nothing in Portage needs 32bit Qt3 libraries. So, yes, they were dropped in purpose.
btw, http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-sunset.git also in layman, is the graveyard for qt3/kde3 ebuilds it's user maintained
