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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:16:28
Message-Id: 201006241612.40192.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thursday 24 June 2010 15:54:33 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:46:59 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 > > > What does emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y
4 > > > @world
5 > > >
6 > > > actually say?
7 > >
8 > > I'm not sure this is correct but I have to ask this. Since gcc is a
9 > > system package, it wouldn't try to upgrade gcc even if one was
10 > > available would it? I guess if something in world just had to have
11 > > that or a newer version then it would pull the newer gcc in but
12 > > otherwise it would skip it right?
13 >
14 > @world includes @system. But the problem is not that emerge world is
15 > skipping it but that it wants to downgrade gcc:4.4.
16
17 So obviously he has
18
19 <sys-devel-gcc-4.4.4
20
21 or similar in a BDEPEND somewhere
22
23 --
24 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>