Re: [gentoo-dev] ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 21 October 2005 01:23 pm, Michiel de Bruijne wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2005 04:56, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:49 pm, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> > > Why single out this one?  ones system will not break irreperbly
> > > without a cxx compiler, it'll just cause a another recompile to get it
> > > to work after breakage if the person is using -* (which has already
> > > been said to be hackish and ill-advised, so doom on them!
> >
> > it will actually
> >
> > if you build gcc w/out C++ support that means no libstdc++
> >
> > no libstdc++ means python on most boxes is now broken
> >
> > no python means no emerge
> >
> > how exactly are you going to re-emerge gcc then ?  oh, you cant ...
>
> Can you think of a situation where this is desired? If not, why not remove
> the cxx IUSE and always build the C++-component?

i use the flag on my machines with different packages (including gcc)

so yes, i can easily think of situations since i use them
-mike
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