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 1EhdAv-0007NR-50 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:23:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB11MsYE009361; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:22:54 GMT Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB11JlLQ029153 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:19:48 GMT Received: from sympatico.ca ([70.49.158.8]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <20051201011946.WNLN21026.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:19:46 -0500 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:19:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:19:46 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86 Message-ID: <20051201011946.GE6528@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20051128142233.GA19195@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20051130185640.GA5891@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20051130200005.GA17628@superlupo.rechner> <438E068F.7020804@leetworks.com> <20051130223456.GD6528@sympatico.ca> <1133393388.5990.45.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.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: <1133393388.5990.45.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Originating-IP: [0] X-Archives-Salt: 7afc4ca7-2a2a-4433-b322-1977b9abf28f X-Archives-Hash: 96dd3e59288d0ab0a0338d0ace6d098d 051130 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> As one of the "masses", I am certainly disturbed at that implication. >> I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 -> 3.x (now 3.3.6). >> This is the kind of issue on which I trust the devs to do sensible things, >> but do we really need to rebuild our whole systems from the ground up ? >> Ordinarily, I upgrade packages individually when it seems appropriate >> & never do 'emerge world' with or without '-e' or other flags; >> I do 'esync' every weekend & look at what is marked as having changed. > Technically, you don't need to rebuild world. > You only need to rebuild stuff that uses C++ and links to libstdc++. That's what I wanted to know. >>From this & other responses, it looks as if it would be a bad idea eg to upgrade to KDE 3.5 just before adopting GCC 3.4 (smile), but that 'revdep-rebuild' will reveal the (lengthy) list of needed remerges. I would urge whoever is documenting this to avoid a blanket recommendation to 'emerge -e system && emerge -e world' or be prepared for a lot of negative reaction from the masses. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list