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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:03:51
Message-Id: 201111141503.04898.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx by Mike Gilbert
1 On Monday 14 November 2011 14:00:01 Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On 11/13/2011 11:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:42:39 Mike Gilbert wrote:
4 > >> If I understand you correctly, you are just going to add a "cxx" use
5 > >> flag to gcc for some transitional period? If so, I can simply switch it
6 > >> at some point after you add the new flag?
7 > >
8 > > transition period:
9 > > http://sources.gentoo.org/www-client/google-chrome/google-chrome-17.0.932
10 > > .0_alpha108826.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
11 > >
12 > > eventually you can drop the [-nocxx] dep, but it'll prob be a while.
13 >
14 > Why do I need the [-nocxx] dep at this point? Everybody is going to end
15 > up rebuilding gcc with the new use flag anyway.
16
17 some people might, but not everyone. if we remove the [-nocxx], and someone
18 where to run `emerge google-chrome -u`, portage would fail with dependency
19 errors. i'd leave the dep in there for a while until most people have
20 upgraded naturally. perhaps after the next gcc stabilization.
21 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>