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From: Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 08:28:23
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0605270127070.28628@ladonis.lannet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sat, 27 May 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 27 May 2006 07:54:44 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
4 >
5 > > > and KDE continued to
6 > > > work.
7 > >
8 > > Not here.
9 >
10 > I've had a few strange errors since posting that. Like one from Konqueror
11 > when trying to load a page, which then loaded perfectly on the next try.
12 >
13 > > > Maybe i've not run one of the affected programs.
14 > >
15 > > > Re-emerging
16 > > > *everything* to fix a KDE problem seems like knee-jerk overkill.
17 > >
18 > > Well, but that's what's suggested.
19 >
20 > I think I'll pass on that one. Rebuilding all of KDE will take long
21 > enough, but it seems prudent, I'm certainly not going to spend 16+ hours
22 > rebuilding OOo if I don't need to.
23 >
24 > > Anyway, it's plain wrong that NOTHING has to be done after upgrading
25 > > to gcc 4.1.1. Maybe an "emerge -e world" is required. And an "emerge
26 > > -e world" is *very* *much* from doing nothing...
27 >
28 > Absolutely. The GWN posting was clearly optimistic :(
29 >
30 >
31
32 Why would an emerge -e world be required? It is not required to rebuild
33 every package using the new gcc. They will slowly be rebuilt when they are
34 upgraded. I have done nothing since upgrading and had not one issue. Why
35 would I, it doesn't even make sense? They are binaries, after all.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required? Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>