Funtoo has been using ports-2012 as its main portage tree since 2012. While we do shallow clones of the ports tree, which makes its size manageable for end-users, the back-end repo does grow and get quite big. For this reason, it would be good to migrate to a brand-new ports-2015 repo with no prior history.

In addition, ports-2015 could get rid of all tree update files prior to 2015, and move to a new repo naming convention ("funtoo" instead of "gentoo").

The process to roll-out the new repo is likely going to be a portage upgrade, which will update the SYNC variable in make.globals. I would like a feature to be added to Portage so that it can "see" that the ports-2012 repo is deprecated and inform users to upgrade to the new ports-2015 repo. This can be communicated to users via a message output whenever emerge is run. Something like:

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• • • The portage repository you are using has been deprecated.
    • Please update to a newer Portage tree by performing the following
    • steps, as root:
      ***
    • # mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old
    • # emerge --sync
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