On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:24:52PM -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:12 +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: > > Does this mean that we can get rid of the libstd++ dependency of gcc, > > and move it to the binary packages that depends on gcc 3.3 . > > I know this has been discussed before, but once it's stable I see no > > reason to keep the dependency in the gcc ebuild, when it could be in the > > binary packages. > > Well, right after the upgrade, there will still be tons of non-binary > programs built against the old libstdc++, so no. Unless you want to > force everyone to emerge -e world after the upgrade (which will make you > very unpopular).
not really an issue ... gcc is SLOTed for everyone to gccmajor.gccminor that means when people upgrade to gcc-3.4, gcc-3.3 will remain on their system until they remove it so if user fails to rebuild all their packages before unmerging gcc-3.3 they will be screwed, but OH WELL -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
