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Christopher O'Neill wrote: |
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> . I notice certain other popular distros are now running GCC4 (and |
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> have been for some time), yet we are still running 3.4.6 (on ~x86). I |
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> know it's a lot of work ensuring that all packages compile properly |
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> with GCC4 and that there are no introduced bugs, but I have no idea |
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> how we are progressing on this - and wouldn't even like to ask for |
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> fear of asking in the wrong place.. |
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Toolchain updates in particular take longer than with most distros, |
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because of the nature of ours -- we need every user to be able to |
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compile every keyworded package from source, and we have an extremely |
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large package database. |
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I bet there's a bug open for it. |
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> . How's portage 2.1 getting along? I notice it gets frequent updates. |
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The gentoo-portage-dev list is the place to follow this. |
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> I am not asking for answers for those questions, they are merely |
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> examples (I could think of many more, so please don't single these |
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> out). The point I am making is how we (the users) are in the dark on |
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> how Gentoo is progressing. This is the main reason I have subscribed |
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> to this mailing list (as well as Gentoo-Users) in an attempt to keep |
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> track of what's happening, but without much success). |
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The general case of the above is that if you want information, you need |
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to find the right spot for it. That's generally either a specific |
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relevant list or Bugzilla. The information doesn't come looking for you. |
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HTH, |
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Donnie |
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