I've held off on doing this gcc update as I'm on an old P4 2Ghz notebook with 1G RAM (Dell i8200). Things are generally working okay (as well as any linux/gentoo system can be I guess).
What is the compelling reason to update if any? I've masked out this new GCC for many months and have had no "issues" thus far that I know of. I absolutely dread dicking with this for days and days, fixing things that currently work, merging all the /etc/ files with the "new" ones for the same packages that will be simply re-compiled with the new GCC. So my questions are: [a] what compelling reason is there to upgrade (other than "you should b/c it's stable") [b] is it just better to d/l a new Gentoo .iso install that has all this crap already, copy over my world file or whatever and have it install the missing packages (apache, php, mysql, kde, gnome, etc) [c] if I do that method, I would save the hassle of KDE and Gnome right? As they come as binaries already? [d] can I just "not fix if it aint broke" and keep with what I have? Or is this just a question of time before I start hitting walls of new packages I can't use. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fish > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:13 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remerge the system with gcc-4.1? > > On 9/8/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I could be entirely wrong on this, but I upgraded from > 3.4.6 to 4.1.1 and > > did not re-emerge system or world. > > > > Actually, with all due respect, it is unnecessary to > recompile anything > > other than the programs which depend on libstdc++. > > Yeah, I thought this too. And in fact, I also did a revdep-rebuild > for the 4.1 upgrade and did not experience any problems between then > and the time I eventually did an emerge -e world. But check the > archives of this list from around the time when gcc-4.1 hit ~arch, and > you will see that that did *not* work for everybody. We learned the > hard way that the safe route is emerge -e world. > > And it isn't just my say-so...the gentoo devs insist ([1] & [2]) that > the emerge -e world is the only safe option. They don't say these > things because they want users to waste a bunch of time... > > [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-493662.html > [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3541436.html#3541436 > > -Richard > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
