The ebuild DESCRIPTION could be more informative about the package. The HOMEPAGE does not help the user to find out, what eselect-pdftex does and how it is used. Reproducible: Always
it's useless these days, unless someone wants to (re)write a standalone pdftex ebuild
(In reply to Alexis Ballier from comment #1) > it's useless these days, [...] Can it be removed then? There are no reverse dependencies.
# Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> (2020-07-25) # No longer needed without the separate dev-tex/pdftex package. # Removal in 30 days. Bug #533080. app-eselect/eselect-pdftex
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b792217a093c6b14b6e2625cce923045accc2e15 commit b792217a093c6b14b6e2625cce923045accc2e15 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-12 11:34:47 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-12 11:51:07 +0000 app-text/texlive-core: Remove symlink magic for mpost and pdftex. Block against app-eselect/eselect-{mpost,pdftex}. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/733862 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/533080 Acked-by: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.2, Repoman-2.3.23 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> app-text/texlive-core/texlive-core-2020-r8.ebuild | 359 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 359 insertions(+)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=30192ee05a9e83829d236a988398b296203f4a1e commit 30192ee05a9e83829d236a988398b296203f4a1e Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-24 07:08:07 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-24 07:09:48 +0000 app-eselect/eselect-pdftex: Remove last-rited pkg Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/533080 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> .../eselect-pdftex/eselect-pdftex-0.3.ebuild | 28 ---- .../eselect-pdftex/files/pdftex.eselect-0.3 | 147 --------------------- app-eselect/eselect-pdftex/metadata.xml | 8 -- profiles/package.mask | 5 - 4 files changed, 188 deletions(-)
