Bug 461916 – app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-motif: drop package

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ulrich Müller 2013-03-16 11:53:30 UTC]

The latest ebuilds of x11-libs/motif in SLOTs 0 and 2.2, i.e. motif-2.3.4-r1 and motif-2.2.3-r12 have been converted to inherit multilib-minimal.eclass.

AFAICS, emul-linux-x86-motif has only a single package as reverse dependency, namely net-misc/icaclient.

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2013-03-16 12:33:59 UTC]

I guess we will need to get that multilib versions stabilized before treecleaning this emul package

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2013-03-16 12:46:17 UTC]

Sounds like a plan.

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2013-03-16 12:57:32 UTC]

multilib-minimal is not necessary here, it's an overkill (and I told you that 'minimal' is not a good name). multilib-build providing USE flags is enough.

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2013-03-16 12:58:01 UTC]

Or wait, no eclass at all. It's just about [abi_x86_32] USE-dep.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2013-07-31 13:43:25 UTC]

Created attachment 354728 [details]
emul-linux-x86-motif-20130224-r1.ebuild

Converting to a metapackage with USE=abi_x86_32.
Please review.

[Comment 6 Ulrich Müller 2013-07-31 14:04:50 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #5)
> Created attachment 354728 [details]
> emul-linux-x86-motif-20130224-r1.ebuild
> 
> Converting to a metapackage with USE=abi_x86_32.
> Please review.

Committed to CVS, as discussed with aballier.

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2013-08-24 07:01:06 UTC]

This needs Xorg multilib stabilization to be able to remove old emul set

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2013-10-08 21:05:36 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #7)
> This needs Xorg multilib stabilization to be able to remove old emul set

And now depends on unmasking of the USE flag for them ;)

[Comment 9 Nikoli 2014-04-05 13:01:33 UTC]

Ping, all blockers seems fixed now, will you update or drop ebuild?

[Comment 10 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-05 19:28:18 UTC]

The flag is still stable masked, but the only reverse dependency (net-misc/icaclient) has no stable version.

So I guess the package could be last-rited indeed.

[Comment 11 Ulrich Müller 2014-09-30 21:10:46 UTC]

+# Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]> (30 Sep 2014)
+# Obsolete, superseded by multilib x11-libs/motif.
+# Masked for removal in 30 days, bug #461916.
+app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-motif
+

[Comment 12 Nick Bowler 2014-10-01 17:08:39 UTC]

Is it really necessary to remove this package?  It is currently a massive pain in the butt to enable multilib motif on stable amd64.

We have a huge number of existing binaries that require on 32-bit motif; previously the solution was to just install this package (emul-linux-x86-motif).  I guess an alternate solution will be required...

[Comment 13 Ulrich Müller 2014-10-01 22:28:22 UTC]

(In reply to Nick Bowler from comment #12)
> Is it really necessary to remove this package?

The plan is to eventually remove all emul-linux-x86-* packages.

I'm giving this more time (60 days) until removal. So for now, you can unmask emul-linux-x86-motif as a workaround.

Alternatively, you could enable ABI_X86="64 32" in make.conf and unmask the abi_x86_32 flag for motif (by adding a line "x11-libs/motif -abi_x86_32" to /etc/portage/profile/package.use.stable.mask, and similar lines for those dependencies of motif that need the abi_x86_32 flag enabled).

[Comment 14 Ulrich Müller 2014-10-02 10:32:42 UTC]

After discussing the issue with pacho, I've reverted the masking. We'll proceed with removal when the abi_x86_32 flag is unmasked in stable.

[Comment 15 Michał Górny 2015-06-02 08:34:22 UTC]

Dropped.