From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC2BF139694 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC43621C012; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 930EEE0BAA for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [141.23.212.83] (wlan-141-23-212-83.tubit.tu-berlin.de [141.23.212.83]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chithanh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68622341301 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1492950948.19560.1.camel@gentoo.org> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ch=c3=ad-Thanh_Christopher_Nguy=e1=bb=85n?= Message-ID: <881de78b-4cda-cea5-f55b-cd8258df1879@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:42:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1492950948.19560.1.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: d7c451d2-6049-4e54-8e0a-ddafc2fe320d X-Archives-Hash: f56da6dad283ff4e24bda997695d54e8 Michał Górny schrieb: > The most important goal of having the packages masked is that it would > cause Portage to verbosely complain whenever the users have it > installed. With appropriate comment (displayed by Portage), we could > clearly inform users that they need to upgrade gcc and switch to a new > version to ensure that majority of packages work. Portage already tells users to run --depclean after each @world update, which will remove old gcc versions (except if stuff like gcj-jdk is installed). What your proposal does is to remind users who don't act on the first message, or who never do world updates, do I get this right? Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn