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On śro, 2017-04-26 at 11:42 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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> Michał Górny schrieb: |
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> > The most important goal of having the packages masked is that it would |
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> > cause Portage to verbosely complain whenever the users have it |
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> > installed. With appropriate comment (displayed by Portage), we could |
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> > clearly inform users that they need to upgrade gcc and switch to a new |
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> > version to ensure that majority of packages work. |
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> Portage already tells users to run --depclean after each @world update, |
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> which will remove old gcc versions (except if stuff like gcj-jdk is |
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> installed). |
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> What your proposal does is to remind users who don't act on the first |
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> message, or who never do world updates, do I get this right? |
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Yes, mostly those users. However, it will also remind those who decided |
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not to upgrade for some reason, e.g. planned to do it later, then |
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forgot. |
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Plus those users who have old systems and attempt to do larger upgrades |
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-- as an explicit note that they need to take special care to switch gcc |
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before upgrading most of their system. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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