profiles: mask dev-libs/beignet for removal

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/710640

Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index a79f759aacbc9772c4559223130c91fc68ace581..79f23004d41b0c8e3d2bfce4177318b80c3b8b0e 100644 (file)
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -32,6 +32,21 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> (2020-02-24)
+# Deprecated upstream in Q1'2018 in favour of dev-libs/intel-neo and
+# while it officially remains the recommended solution for "legacy HW
+# platforms" not supported by NEO (i.e. Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and
+# Haswell GPUs), there has been no repository activity since August 2018.
+# Only really suitable for code development due to poor performance, some
+# OpenCL-aware software (e.g. media-gfx/darktable) explicitly
+# blacklists Beignet devices.
+# Upstream does not support LLVM versions newer than 7, third-party patches
+# exist for 8 and 9 but Beignet built against those versions fails some
+# unit tests.
+#
+# Removal in 30 days. Bug #710640.
+dev-libs/beignet
+
 # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2020-02-24)
 # app-admin/packagekit-base is Python 2 only and behind upstream.
 # The Portage backend is unmaintained.  Other packages are its reverse