only trigger deprecated warnings on using functionality which is actually deprecated

This contains changes required such that deprecation log messages are only hit when actual deprecated functionality is being relied upon.

This is necessary to make `--deprecated` useful, with the upcoming EasyBuild v2.0 release in mind. 

depends on https://github.com/hpcugent/vsc-base/pull/149


well, I do have a reason actually... keeping this separate makes it easy to remove this again in a future version, instead of having to refactor code to flesh out the `HybridListDict`...