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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:17:40
Message-Id: CAEdQ38EU-w+N5BiPhKTyZXs9jpO9bOj3rV1abvBwTEVoumcwKg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking by Ryan Hill
1 On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are
6 >> preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near
7 >> stabilization)?
8 >>
9 >> I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's masked for
10 >> testing purposes :-/
11 >
12 > Grub is the only blocker.  I don't want to unmask something that makes
13 > people's systems unbootable.
14 >
15 > I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions.
16
17 Is it a bad idea to go ahead and unmask it on architectures that don't use grub?