dev-tex/texmfind was used many years ago to "Locate the ebuild providing a certain texmf file through regexp" it was superseded by the more more comprehensive solution app-portage/pfl http://www.portagefilelist.de/ upstream development till 2010 was on https://launchpad.net/texmfind/ and http://home.gna.org/texmfind (shut down) app-portage/pfl does the job now very good since many years, the TeX Project decided to last-rite the obsolete package now.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=20d5799c4e9d4645032f93004691c49c5fb7205e commit 20d5799c4e9d4645032f93004691c49c5fb7205e Author: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-10-16 23:08:43 +0000 Commit: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-10-16 23:08:43 +0000 profiles: Mask dev-tex/texmfind for removal dev-tex/texmfind was superseded by app-portage/pfl Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/634494 profiles/package.mask | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)}
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f053dac223fdb85b03ab5476d9a65a9f07557f7b commit f053dac223fdb85b03ab5476d9a65a9f07557f7b Author: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-12-05 10:12:36 +0000 Commit: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-12-05 10:12:36 +0000 dev-tex/texmfind: Remove last-rited pkg Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/634494 dev-tex/texmfind/Manifest | 1 - dev-tex/texmfind/metadata.xml | 30 ------------------------------ dev-tex/texmfind/texmfind-2010.1.ebuild | 16 ---------------- 3 files changed, 47 deletions(-)