missing eclasses are fun

I finally bit the bullet today and started cleaning up my php install. I use php5 and that means I've been screwed in the past. Gentoo's php ebuilds have changed a lot in the past year, and have left quite the mess in their wake. I unmerged php, mod_php and phpdocs. Now to check if I had any additional baggage, I ran equery list php which summarily spit out php-core. Not only was there a php-core merged, but it was for php 4.3.4. Unmerge fails, due to a missing eclass file. Now the eclass itself had apparently been removed about a year ago, so it isn't a the gentoo dev team's fault. To fix the issue all that was required was touching the file, and then running the unmerge again.

I am currently 5 of 14 ebuilds into my php fixup. Hopefully nothing will self-destruct.