Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

[Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@leetworks.com>]

Mark Loeser wrote:

>Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@leetworks.com> said:
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>>is a minimum. A full out doc with all the FAQ and important notes about 
>>what needs to be recompiled (in my opinion) would be a much more through 
>>upgrade path, ofcourse still include the einfo quick instructions. But I 
>>think the masses of users will not be happy when they realize that 
>>emerge -e world && emerge -e world means that they will be compiling for 
>>the next day (or 2 or 3), so a way to block the upgrade from messing up 
>>people that wish to keep 3.3.x as default would be a good idea.
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>gcc-3.4.* will not be selected as your system compiler after merging it.  The
>old gcc profile is still valid, therefore it is kept.  Users have to
>consciously go and change their profile to change their gcc, so nothing is
>going to just magically break.
>
That makes me feel a bit more comfortable. I still think that something 
more then an einfo warning should be provided, as its easy to overlook 
those.

Tux
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