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From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Any reason to keep older gcc?
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:47:07
Message-Id: fl8gcc$glu$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc? by Qian Qiao
1 On 2007-12-28, Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 >> Would there be any reason to keep the older gcc 3.46? I'm
4 >> not familiar enough with Gentoo "under-the-hood" to decide.
5 >
6 > Try "equery depends =gcc-3*", without the quotes obviously.
7 >
8 > If none of the packages you installed depends on gcc-3*, you should be
9 > able to get rid of it safely.
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11 That's not been my experience. For example, Qemu won't compile
12 with gcc-4, yet doesn't have gcc-3 as a dependancy.
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