What to do if my system still uses ruby-18

[ayvango]

I have old but still useful application named fantasdic. It is written in ruby-1.8 and was not updated for long. All other ruby world in portage pretends that this ruby version never existed. I'd like to keep working packages working, but that means that I can not update any ruby package anymore.

How to solve this contradiction? Is there any backward-compatibility optional stuff in some overlay?

[mahdi1234]

As far as overlay goes there seems to be couple of them still having 1.8 - http://gentoo.mahdi.cz/dev-lang:ruby.html

You can of course create a local overlay with 1.8 packages as well and have them forever.

Should you need any old ebuild there's repo with whole portage history e.g. for x86 and ruby http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/ruby/?hideattic=0

You may also consider protect certain slot for of a package https://negativesum.net/tech/linux/gentoo/log/protecting-slotted-packages-from-emerge-depclean/

and of course there might be alternatives like goldendict (I'm Qt user, perhaps something gtk as well)

cheers ...
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[ayvango]

Access to all history ebuilds is great. But having old dev-lang/ruby is not the single issue in keeping old ruby software operable. There are some ruby libraries that the package uses. That libraries do not support USE flag ruby_targets_ruby18 anymore. So I should slot them somehow. As far as I know there is no automatic process for adding slots to a package