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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:10:52
Message-Id: 54660D63.9090004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency by Mike Gilbert
1 On 11/13/2014 01:13 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Michael Palimaka
3 > <kensington@g.o> wrote:
4 >> On 14/11/14 01:05, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
5 >>> Isn't it possible to disable C++ in GCC with USE="-cxx"?
6 >>
7 >> It is, but I think if that's disabled you're on your own. :-)
8 >
9 > Perhaps we should add a package.use.force entry for this. Is there any
10 > reason not to?
11 >
12
13 Under the assumption that gcc[cxx] is needed for the package manager,
14 you still only need *one* GCC with C++ support. You could have another
15 slot without C++ for testing or whatever.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Implicit system dependency Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>