Re: [gentoo-science] Testing with GCC 4

[Donnie Berkholz]

Adam Piątyszek wrote:
> * Donnie Berkholz [2006-05-29 10:26]:
>  > This problem should only happen when you first use the eselect version,
>> then switch back to the *-config version, then switch to the eselect
>> version again. I don't consider it a real bug, because of this.
>>
>> The deal is that /etc/env.d/lapack/config will specify the
>> CURRENT="$foo" setting, but it can't know about how things are set up
>> using *-config rather than the eselect modules.
>
> So, it seems that the new eselect tool is not backward compatible with
> previous approaches, which is in my opinion not a good idea. A user might
> have mixed x86 and ~x86 packages installed and therefore some of them uses
> old *-config scripts and others your new eselect tool. In such a situation
> there is no convenient method to switch between libraries...
>
> That is of course my point of view, from the user's perspective.

In my opinion, adding extra code to deal with an old approach is a bad
idea and will quickly introduce cruft into a new replacement.

Supporting mixed testing-stable systems is not a goal. Supporting
all-~x86 and all-x86 systems is a goal.

Thanks,
Donnie