This was an attempt to provide more reliable package merging mechanism for Portage. However, it was never finished and with Portage's concept of bug-by-bug neverending backwards compatibility it would never be accepted anyway.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=eedd08591c0cff939918d0ab311feb2097998031 commit eedd08591c0cff939918d0ab311feb2097998031 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-09-15 17:13:07 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-09-15 17:13:07 +0000 package.mask: Last rite dev-util/atomic-install Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/694514 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0106c614bfb5613e56c10eb8a840272651dbf400 commit 0106c614bfb5613e56c10eb8a840272651dbf400 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-10-15 16:32:19 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-10-15 16:35:16 +0000 dev-util/atomic-install: Remove last-rited pkg Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/694514 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> dev-util/atomic-install/Manifest | 1 - .../atomic-install/atomic-install-0.1.1.ebuild | 28 --------------- dev-util/atomic-install/atomic-install-9999.ebuild | 42 ---------------------- dev-util/atomic-install/metadata.xml | 16 --------- profiles/package.mask | 8 ----- 5 files changed, 95 deletions(-)
