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 1EhguQ-0001NR-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:23:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB15MMkd001659; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 05:22:22 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 jB15KcwP017370 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 05:20:39 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ehgs2-0007PO-8L for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:20:38 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EhgqV-0005zP-4x for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:19:03 +0100 Received: from 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([206.163.248.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:19:03 +0100 Received: from dirtyepic.sk by 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:19:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:17:31 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20051128142233.GA19195@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20051130185640.GA5891@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20051130200005.GA17628@superlupo.rechner> <438E068F.7020804@leetworks.com> <20051130201210.GB6839@aerie.halcy0n.com> <438E08A3.7080001@leetworks.com> 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=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (X11/20051124) In-Reply-To: <438E08A3.7080001@leetworks.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: d28afddc-e9e0-4bde-be51-53ec3c08f9db X-Archives-Hash: c8c93bfd7e00f1b82c37efe3f3d9d0f9 Andrew Muraco wrote: > Mark Loeser wrote: >> Andrew Muraco said: >>> 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. >>> >> >> 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. All arches other than x86 have made the switch to 3.4 stable already. They did so without problem and without extra docs. Why does x86, the last to switch, need to be special-cased? --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list