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From: Michiel de Bruijne <m.debruijne@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:26:55
Message-Id: 200510211923.54100.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use by Mike Frysinger
1 On Friday 21 October 2005 04:56, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:49 pm, Dan Meltzer wrote:
3 > > Why single out this one? ones system will not break irreperbly
4 > > without a cxx compiler, it'll just cause a another recompile to get it
5 > > to work after breakage if the person is using -* (which has already
6 > > been said to be hackish and ill-advised, so doom on them!
7 >
8 > it will actually
9 >
10 > if you build gcc w/out C++ support that means no libstdc++
11 >
12 > no libstdc++ means python on most boxes is now broken
13 >
14 > no python means no emerge
15 >
16 > how exactly are you going to re-emerge gcc then ? oh, you cant ...
17 > -mike
18
19 Can you think of a situation where this is desired? If not, why not remove the
20 cxx IUSE and always build the C++-component?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>