* portage: drop dependency on gentoolkit (provides equery)
Portage installs a Python module, which is available anywhere that
Portage itself is available. We can use that instead of calling a
shell command.
Signed-off-by: John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org>
* portage: add knob for emerge's --backtrack flag
Signed-off-by: John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org>
* portage: add knob for portage's --with-bdeps option
Also, this option does not accept "True" like other options. Instead,
it only uses 'y' and 'n', so parse booleans properly into these chars.
Signed-off-by: John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org>
* Add changelog entry for #5349
Signed-off-by: John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2a54644cfa)
Co-authored-by: ajakk <jchelmert3@posteo.net>
