New category “dev-vcs”: Version control systems (or software) 2010-03-04
We’re introducing a new category dev-vcs keeping version control focused utilities today and will be moving packages (like Subversion, Git and the like) over step by step. Moving packages involves quite a few steps and has high potential to break things so please give us some time to complete this.
If you happen to run into trouble due to the ongoing move please file a bug and make #56967 depend on that one. Thank you!
The New category “dev-vcs”: Version control systems (or software) by Sebastian Pipping, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Moving the packages themselves is pretty straightforward. Most work will go into updating all the reverse dependencies.
It’s also nice to see we could reach consensus on this so fast, where they failed to do so because of bikeshedding six years ago.
If you have have any of the tools that are moved in your world file like dev-util/mercurial, you need to manually edit it to dev-vcs/mercurial
the world file is as always located in /var/lib/portage/world