Michał Górny schrieb:
The most important goal of having the packages masked is that it would cause Portage to verbosely complain whenever the users have it installed. With appropriate comment (displayed by Portage), we could clearly inform users that they need to upgrade gcc and switch to a new version to ensure that majority of packages work.
Portage already tells users to run --depclean after each @world update, which will remove old gcc versions (except if stuff like gcj-jdk is installed). What your proposal does is to remind users who don't act on the first message, or who never do world updates, do I get this right?
Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
