From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98375139694 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58D4DE0C13; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BADEE0C07 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 209F8340BEA; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1493209376.13478.1.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:22:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <881de78b-4cda-cea5-f55b-cd8258df1879@gentoo.org> References: <1492950948.19560.1.camel@gentoo.org> <881de78b-4cda-cea5-f55b-cd8258df1879@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-hQrZCcTAnY8B+i9WFFk0" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 5ffbc202-3498-4856-bdf0-9ce52fa89e28 X-Archives-Hash: e649897fa36ff45e62b16360e5d81c6a --=-hQrZCcTAnY8B+i9WFFk0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On =C5=9Bro, 2017-04-26 at 11:42 +0200, Ch=C3=AD-Thanh Christopher Nguy=E1= =BB=85n wrote: > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny schrieb: > > The most important goal of having the packages masked is that it would > > cause Portage to verbosely complain whenever the users have it > > installed. With appropriate comment (displayed by Portage), we could > > clearly inform users that they need to upgrade gcc and switch to a new > > version to ensure that majority of packages work. >=20 > Portage already tells users to run --depclean after each @world update,= =20 > which will remove old gcc versions (except if stuff like gcj-jdk is=20 > installed). > What your proposal does is to remind users who don't act on the first=20 > message, or who never do world updates, do I get this right? Yes, mostly those users. However, it will also remind those who decided not to upgrade for some reason, e.g. planned to do it later, then forgot. Plus those users who have old systems and attempt to do larger upgrades -- as an explicit note that they need to take special care to switch gcc before upgrading most of their system. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-hQrZCcTAnY8B+i9WFFk0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAABCgB9FiEEXr8g+Zb7PCLMb8pAur8dX/jIEQoFAlkAkSBfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDVF QkYyMEY5OTZGQjNDMjJDQzZGQ0E0MEJBQkYxRDVGRjhDODExMEEACgkQur8dX/jI EQqoSA/8DC6ut8sJnCFUnAM+EZkiS/QwsPRY0j/pSuJAvtN60JkJ8HTfbqFpslXe SJ7KUwCp87ialkT2OWHZ+FjFVTO960yShRjiSkskTqv6XwGCUHUz9EV+Doq/0vnR OakYNM3F156aZfunParH39b1YsxTysGf+j4RKcp8basLolAOW5mG7hLQdoyq29KA TF8M5yndO0aTFtRnwPYtnyth1vt2YkiYeaWhPoGCvr/PKlWOsaWedQW5DFxqI8Q4 /y3HxC3IzZjump0D6PeiiiCYRoObD5Jp8NEYgP9c9G+fP7SMp4qsEAavxQThLt5E njg7ZMxDELcPLyK+cNCvGBfMvV4QpT8ntqTNTqPq48gYYBkziQTkqhFSREU4KtSn D0cASv5TEkETFsahJLdVStY9s0LzCo1NAaTbYQr4S/EIvv5QGx3jtFHjZ8oRFVPl Hsl1tFo5CL13GFUZFktHC0gIqKliSfkNHB9OqtYVqZjnsmgQeC5kXFzXQUmk/fU9 tNYFt66VeOeFYrlot8UEmtoIX+itLLnwPvthUNLKjrgupi7BlytcK/v11bp65aCN LvcoClaCfnBbedTdXW6Y41BLX4u42dQ4UdQyReinbbt6t7/GL9XL8nj7kojAeVPZ 9aVAEtrgtgALRHfovXqndS3owwgjjQ3OJ5Vq7UACM3Scvz5Okmk= =Du1Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hQrZCcTAnY8B+i9WFFk0--