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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H4Qks-0002RA-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:51:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l09Nob9P019350; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:50:37 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx (c-66-41-120-249.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [66.41.120.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l09NkOdM004523 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:46:25 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4AEF67AD for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:46:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:46:21 -0600 From: Dan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc slots Message-ID: <20070109174621.5a242791@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <200701092329.17667.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200701092329.17667.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Spore X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 56364f45-5cfe-45c9-858f-49314a669021 X-Archives-Hash: 38920d95d9e55a58da18ee53fa85b11d On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:29:15 +0000 Mick wrote: first of all, let me mention there's a short defense of top posting ... at the bottom ;) have you tried emerge --unmerge =gcc-3.4.5 ? note that equal sign, it's usually necessary to include that when specifying a version. I also wanted to make sure you're following the gcc 3.x -> 4.x upgrade guide online, because you'll need to, if you don't want a borked system. best of luck, --dan. > Hi All, > > I just upgraded to gcc-4.1.1. gcc-config -l shows that gcc-3.4.5 is > still there: > > # gcc-config -l > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 > [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardened > [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopie > [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopiessp > [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednossp > [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 * > > When I try to remove gcc-3.4.5, it doesn't exist: > > # emerge -C -p -v gcc-3.4.5 > > >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > --- Couldn't find 'gcc-3.4.5' to unmerge. > > >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge. > > If it doesn't exist, why is it listed? There's most likely a good > explanation for this, but it's getting late and I must be too tired > to understand it. Could you please care to explain? A defense of 'top posting' -- Caution, off topic!!! Whether the reply text goes before or after the message to which it replies depends entirely on personal preferance. Some people choose to run their email clients at full screen and/or on a large display, and perhaps can see the top of the email and the bottom at the same time; thus they can look over the original post and then read the response. However, if one hasn't a big display or a fullscreen mail client (hey, I have lots of windows up that I want to see/switch between!) having responses at the end means you need to scroll way down to the bottom of each message to see the responses. Usually, if you're following a thread closely, you'll already know the train of conversation, so all the response-to quotations are just in the way. Even if you don't have to scroll the text at all, you still have to wade through the question to get to the answer. In time, as the response-to quotations get longer and longer, much space is wasted by this section, and much scrolltime is also wasted. Therefore, I conclude that although I respect the opinions of those who choose to bottom-post, and agree with the reasons it is nice, I also insist that there are also good reasons to top-post, and that I think the only real solution is for us all to live with each others preferences when we can't honor our own. Friendily, Dan. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list