Qt4 is dead and going to be removed. Apparently ball master supports build with Qt5 instead already, maybe a snapshot could be made? Project also moved to github.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8fb344b62cabbf708a619329c4cc023e8dc0a8bf commit 8fb344b62cabbf708a619329c4cc023e8dc0a8bf Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-04-21 16:47:34 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-04-21 21:33:08 +0000 sci-chemistry/ball: Drop old Qt4-based Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/639000 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.31, Repoman-2.3.9 sci-chemistry/ball/Manifest | 1 - sci-chemistry/ball/ball-1.4.2-r2.ebuild | 83 ---------------------- .../ball/files/ball-1.4.1-BondOrder.xml.patch | 30 -------- .../ball/files/ball-1.4.1-missing-signed.patch | 26 ------- sci-chemistry/ball/files/ball-1.4.1-multilib.patch | 39 ---------- ...1.4.2-Fix-compilation-of-sipModularWidget.patch | 40 ----------- ....4.2-PDBFile-Fix-compilation-with-gcc-4.8.patch | 28 -------- ..._OPTIONS-CMake-macro-changed-in-CMake-2.8.patch | 44 ------------ .../files/ball-1.4.2-fix-python-bindings.patch | 22 ------ .../files/ball-1.4.2-std-namespace-isnan.patch | 16 ----- .../files/ball-1.4.2-struct-swap-attribute.patch | 80 --------------------- .../ball/files/ball-1.4.2-underlinking.patch | 16 ----- sci-chemistry/ball/metadata.xml | 1 - 13 files changed, 426 deletions(-) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=09716046e454d0a416a5d424938189d3c8dca296 commit 09716046e454d0a416a5d424938189d3c8dca296 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-04-21 16:46:33 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-04-21 21:33:08 +0000 sci-chemistry/ball: Add 1.5.0_pre20180419 Qt5-based snapshot Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/639000 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.31, Repoman-2.3.9 sci-chemistry/ball/Manifest | 1 + sci-chemistry/ball/ball-1.5.0_pre20180419.ebuild | 100 ++++++ .../ball/files/ball-1.5.0-gnuinstalldirs.patch | 355 +++++++++++++++++++++ sci-chemistry/ball/metadata.xml | 26 +- 4 files changed, 472 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)}