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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:43:38
Message-Id: 4EC17D4D.6050704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx by Mike Frysinger
1 On 11/14/2011 3:03 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 14 November 2011 14:00:01 Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 >> On 11/13/2011 11:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 >>> On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:42:39 Mike Gilbert wrote:
5 >>>> If I understand you correctly, you are just going to add a "cxx" use
6 >>>> flag to gcc for some transitional period? If so, I can simply switch it
7 >>>> at some point after you add the new flag?
8 >>>
9 >>> transition period:
10 >>> http://sources.gentoo.org/www-client/google-chrome/google-chrome-17.0.932
11 >>> .0_alpha108826.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
12 >>>
13 >>> eventually you can drop the [-nocxx] dep, but it'll prob be a while.
14 >>
15 >> Why do I need the [-nocxx] dep at this point? Everybody is going to end
16 >> up rebuilding gcc with the new use flag anyway.
17 >
18 > some people might, but not everyone. if we remove the [-nocxx], and someone
19 > where to run `emerge google-chrome -u`, portage would fail with dependency
20 > errors.
21
22 Actually, it pulls in gcc[cxx], and rebuilds gcc. There is no dependency
23 error. We can prevent an unnecessary gcc rebuild by listing [-nocxx]
24 first however, so I committed that.

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