Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations

[Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org>]

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Christopher O'Neill wrote:
>> . I notice certain other popular distros are now running GCC4 (and
>> have been for some time), yet we are still running 3.4.6 (on ~x86). I
>> know it's a lot of work ensuring that all packages compile properly
>> with GCC4 and that there are no introduced bugs, but I have no idea
>> how we are progressing on this - and wouldn't even like to ask for
>> fear of asking in the wrong place..
> 
> Toolchain updates in particular take longer than with most distros,
> because of the nature of ours -- we need every user to be able to
> compile every keyworded package from source, and we have an extremely
> large package database.
> 
> I bet there's a bug open for it.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117482

> 
>> . How's portage 2.1 getting along? I notice it gets frequent updates.
> 
> The gentoo-portage-dev list is the place to follow this.

Also, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115839


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jakub


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