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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deps on slotted executables (implicit @system tangent)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:17:20
Message-Id: CAGfcS_k_FYeHGwnJA_xnvL=Z7dsWiARMnJknLGYHKeTA+2nUzQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deps on slotted executables (implicit @system tangent) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:08:17 -0500
4 > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
5 >> Question 1: is it desirable to e.g. switch compilers, compile systemd,
6 >> and then switch back?
7 >
8 > This will horrifically break things like Portage's parallel build...
9 >
10 > Note that on every distribution except Gentoo, there are no problems
11 > with running multiple versions of gcc simultaneously.
12 >
13
14 Not really an apples to apples. If you exclusively use binary
15 packages I suspect that you won't run into any of these problems on
16 Gentoo either.
17
18 However, the right way to do this isn't to toggle some global setting
19 - it is to just apply specific settings when building specific
20 packages.
21
22 --
23 Rich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deps on slotted executables (implicit @system tangent) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>