confutils.eclass: Mark @DEAD for removal

diff --git a/eclass/confutils.eclass b/eclass/confutils.eclass
index cfd1a64d9a00fa7570fbc60ed3738ef5d6c91d16..63a65db867e55e87c7c262e1ba802df6cd7c0fa8 100644 (file)
--- a/eclass/confutils.eclass
+++ b/eclass/confutils.eclass
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# @DEAD
+# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (30 Jun 2017)
+# This eclass is no longer useful. Most of it has been superseded by
+# new EAPI features such as REQUIRED_USE and USE dependencies.
+# The remaining functions are very specialized (probably to PHP)
+# and were not used for a long time. The last consumer is now redundant
+# to a new stable version and will be removed soon.
+# The eclass will be removed in 30 days.
+
 # @ECLASS: confutils.eclass
 # @MAINTAINER:
 # No maintainer <maintainer-needed@gentoo.org>