From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671A4138010 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFA6521C0AD; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D4021C0A3 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C46033D384 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:42:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.083 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.083 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.119, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id leJGh5rn9W9l for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF1EE33C96B for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9wwl-0001xg-6E for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:42:03 +0200 Received: from athedsl-347121.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.211.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:42:03 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-347121.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:42:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf??? Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:41:30 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <5049D97C.7030502@libertytrek.org> 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; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-347121.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120902 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: <5049D97C.7030502@libertytrek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9fa2948e-548a-45f6-9cb0-d7dfa022e5c1 X-Archives-Hash: 778e0548b82f357c68554eee34ddbb92 On 07/09/12 14:24, Tanstaafl wrote: > This has never happened to me before... > > Since when did a simple GCC upgrade *automatically* REMOVE my prior GCC > install??? > > I have *always* kept my prior GCC around for a while, if not until the > next upgrade, just as something to fall back on if the current one breaks. > > I am NOT a happy camper. It has always been that way for packages in the same slot. 4.5.3 and 4.5.4 are both in the "4.5" slot. I think you're confusing patch-version upgrades with major and minor-version ones. If you emerge GCC 4.6.3, your 4.5.4 version will be kept. If you really wont to keep multiple patch-versions, then you must set the "multislot" USE flag for GCC. But unless you have a reason to do that, and it seems you don't, there's no reason to have multiple such versions installed.