Critical task upgrades (was [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?)

[David Corbin]

> It is a critical task, and as such, it needs to be done by an
> administrator, under supervision, and, thus, by hand. If I wanted any silly
> package admistration system messing with things like the default flags and
> compiler, I would better use any other distro.
>
> The problem is that a source based distro, relies deeply in the compiler
> and the libs, and those are tied to the profile in gentoo. So, no, an
> autoupdate for this will not be wellcome at all in my side.

Is there a list of what packages have a "critical task" component?  For 
example, I know that that the gcc package requires I do something manually to 
begin using the newer version.

David
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