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 A76F0138334 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 02:49:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FE1DE0841; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 02:49:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.cims.nyu.edu (MX.CIMS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85531E0817 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 02:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id w7A2neWp025727 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:49:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from E7450.localdomain (ool-18be58aa.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.88.170]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id w7A2nd7c029072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:49:40 -0400 Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1218543383; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:49:39 -0400 (EDT) From: allan gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] --depclean and sys-devel/gcc Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:49:39 -0400 Message-ID: <87r2j7szp8.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:49:41 -0400 (EDT) for IP:'128.122.49.97' DOMAIN:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' HELO:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' FROM:'gottlieb@nyu.edu' RCPT:'' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:49:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.4 at mx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.80 on 128.122.49.99 X-Archives-Salt: 8a34421d-6f5c-402b-a39a-0249e79fccd3 X-Archives-Hash: d466568a11106cefd4bf136beab6bc27 I run a stable system so am surprised to see that eix reports I have gcc version ~7.3.0-r3 installed. (gcc-config -l reports that stable x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 is the active compiler) More surprising is that emerge --depclean --pretend sys-devel/gcc wants to remove everything *except* the testing/nonstable 7.3.0-r3 grep -r gcc /etc/portage has no hits. @system and several installed packages require gcc but all would be satisfied by stable 6.4.0-r1 my active compiler # emerge --depclean --verbose --pretend sys-devel/gcc Calculating dependencies... done! sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3 pulled in by: @system requires sys-devel/gcc dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.6.0 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0 net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.20.4 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-4.9 sys-devel/llvm-4.0.1-r1 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-3.0 sys-devel/llvm-5.0.2 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-3.0 sys-devel/llvm-6.0.1 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-3.0 sys-libs/glibc-2.26-r7 requires >=sys-devel/gcc-4.9 >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-devel/gcc selected: 4.9.3 4.9.4 5.4.0-r3 6.4.0-r1 protected: none omitted: 7.3.0-r3 Am I supposed to emerge --unmerge =sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3 ? thanks in advance, allan PS I moved some months ago to the 17.0 profile and did the make --emptytree @world