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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:08:56
Message-Id: 20060328090405.54ededdf@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade? by Teresa and Dale
1 On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:06:54 -0600, Teresa and Dale wrote:
2
3 > I upgraded gcc a while back. I thought I read somewhere that it is best
4 > to just upgrade on occasion with the major upgrades. Should this be
5 > upgraded or should I mask it? This is what I get:
6 >
7 > > root@smoker / # emerge -up world
8 > >
9 > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
10 > >
11 > > Calculating world dependencies ...done!
12 > > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r1 [1.3.12-r6]
13 > > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5-r1 [3.4.5]
14
15 Read the changelog and decide for yourself.
16 "emerge --changelog gcc" will show you the changes and the reason for
17 the upgrade.
18
19 > I really don't want to do a emerge -e world or rebuild a lot right now.
20 > I am glad to see the new Scribus though. ;-)
21
22 You don't have to do an emerge -e- world for a minor update to GCC. Maybe
23 when you go from 3.3 to 3.4, or 3.4 to 4.0, but not for this.
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26 --
27 Neil Bothwick
28
29 Bookmark - A means of returning to where you got lost last time.

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