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Currently, binutils is split into sys-devel/binutils and sys-libs/binutils-libs, and there is a tool binutils-config to manage slotted binutils.
I'm looking at unslotting binutils and making it one much simpler ebuild.
The slotting is not generally useful, in my opinion, and adds complexity. The split between binutils and binutils-libs appears primarily designed for Gentoo "cross" support, which is painful to maintain and use, and we are moving away from.
This will make binutils easier to maintain, and allow us to use standard paths for installing everything. It reduces complexity by quite a bit.