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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:33:38
Message-Id: 20051129023054.GA1350@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86 by Daniel Gryniewicz
1 On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:24:52PM -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:12 +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
3 > > Does this mean that we can get rid of the libstd++ dependency of gcc,
4 > > and move it to the binary packages that depends on gcc 3.3 .
5 > > I know this has been discussed before, but once it's stable I see no
6 > > reason to keep the dependency in the gcc ebuild, when it could be in the
7 > > binary packages.
8 >
9 > Well, right after the upgrade, there will still be tons of non-binary
10 > programs built against the old libstdc++, so no. Unless you want to
11 > force everyone to emerge -e world after the upgrade (which will make you
12 > very unpopular).
13
14 not really an issue ... gcc is SLOTed for everyone to gccmajor.gccminor
15
16 that means when people upgrade to gcc-3.4, gcc-3.3 will remain on their
17 system until they remove it
18
19 so if user fails to rebuild all their packages before unmerging gcc-3.3
20 they will be screwed, but OH WELL
21 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86 Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>