On 11/13/2014 05:30 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: > > Suggested policy to get the ball rolling: > > In general, a package must explicitly depend upon what it directly uses. > However, to avoid ebuild complexity and developer burden there are some > exceptions. Packages that appear in the base system set may be omitted > from an ebuild's dependency list in the following circumstances: > > * C compiler and runtime
Specifically sys-devel/gcc and sys-libs/glibc (i.e. what's in @system), or just anything? > * C++ compiler and runtime Isn't it possible to disable C++ in GCC with USE="-cxx"?