From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EgvJJ-0006FD-PH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:33:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAT2WnQO001449; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:32:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAT2Us1f004095 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:30:55 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EgvGg-0008Gr-J3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:30:54 +0000 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:30:54 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86 Message-ID: <20051129023054.GA1350@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <20051128142233.GA19195@aerie.halcy0n.com> <438B4877.2040808@gentoo.org> <1133216692.22506.39.camel@athena.fprintf.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1133216692.22506.39.camel@athena.fprintf.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 52851288-bce8-42dc-9b9c-32a552be9fc9 X-Archives-Hash: ad4a9cea16113df9b84cac076ae9327f On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:24:52PM -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:12 +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: > > Does this mean that we can get rid of the libstd++ dependency of gcc, > > and move it to the binary packages that depends on gcc 3.3 . > > I know this has been discussed before, but once it's stable I see no > > reason to keep the dependency in the gcc ebuild, when it could be in the > > binary packages. > > Well, right after the upgrade, there will still be tons of non-binary > programs built against the old libstdc++, so no. Unless you want to > force everyone to emerge -e world after the upgrade (which will make you > very unpopular). not really an issue ... gcc is SLOTed for everyone to gccmajor.gccminor that means when people upgrade to gcc-3.4, gcc-3.3 will remain on their system until they remove it so if user fails to rebuild all their packages before unmerging gcc-3.3 they will be screwed, but OH WELL -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list