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On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 00:59:29 +0000, antlists wrote: |
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> > It means you probably spent a lot of time compile gcc versions only to |
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> > carry on using the old version, but as you said, this wasn't about |
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> > efficiency. You were going to emerge -e @world at the end anyway, |
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> > which would get everything built with the latest toolchain. |
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> As I remember, you always had to use eselect to switch versions ... and |
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> witness all the chaos with python at the moment ... |
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> If you leave things "at the default", doesn't that screw you over when |
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> python/kernel/gcc etc upgrade and a depclean deletes your original |
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> default version? Or is that now fixed so you can't mess things up that |
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> way? |
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You can't because eselect always shows a fallback option, which will be |
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used should you unmerge the selected version. |
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