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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] --depclean and sys-devel/gcc
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 02:49:51
Message-Id: 87r2j7szp8.fsf@nyu.edu
1 I run a stable system so am surprised to see that eix reports
2 I have gcc version ~7.3.0-r3 installed. (gcc-config -l reports
3 that stable x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 is the active compiler)
4
5 More surprising is that
6 emerge --depclean --pretend sys-devel/gcc
7 wants to remove everything *except* the testing/nonstable 7.3.0-r3
8
9 grep -r gcc /etc/portage
10 has no hits.
11
12 @system and several installed packages require gcc but all would be
13 satisfied by stable 6.4.0-r1 my active compiler
14
15 # emerge --depclean --verbose --pretend sys-devel/gcc
16
17 Calculating dependencies... done!
18 sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3 pulled in by:
19 @system requires sys-devel/gcc
20 dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.6.0 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0
21 net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.20.4 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-4.9
22 sys-devel/llvm-4.0.1-r1 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-3.0
23 sys-devel/llvm-5.0.2 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-3.0
24 sys-devel/llvm-6.0.1 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-3.0
25 sys-libs/glibc-2.26-r7 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-4.9
26
27 >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
28
29 sys-devel/gcc
30 selected: 4.9.3 4.9.4 5.4.0-r3 6.4.0-r1
31 protected: none
32 omitted: 7.3.0-r3
33
34 Am I supposed to
35 emerge --unmerge =sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3
36 ?
37
38 thanks in advance,
39 allan
40
41 PS I moved some months ago to the 17.0 profile and did the
42 make --emptytree @world

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Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and sys-devel/gcc Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>