On Wednesday 16 November 2011 02:07:12 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Nov 16, 2011 8:00 AM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > > On 11/15/2011 08:58 PM, Jarry wrote: > >> Hi, > >> today I upgraded gcc from 4.4.5 to the last stable version > >> 4.5.3-r1. > >> [...] > >> > >> But at the and I noticed gcc 4.4 has not been unmerged > >> and my "world" file is somehow larger. To my surprise, > >> it contains these lines: > >> > >> sys-devel/gcc > >> sys-devel/gcc:4.4 > >> > >> I did full backup before, so I compared world-file before > >> and after gcc-upgrade just to find out, these two lines > >> have been really inserted now, during gcc-upgrade. And my > >> question is: what does it mean? Does my system need now > >> both gcc 4.4 and 4.5? Why is actually gcc in world-file, > >> when it is part of system? > > > > The old GCC version does not get removed. This is a good thing just in > > case the new one doesn't work for some reason. > > > If it works OK, you can manually unmerge the old version: > > emerge -aC gcc:4.4 > > > > Before doing that, however, make sure the new one has been activated with > > gcc-config and verify that it works by building some random package. > > > And if you're adventurous, add USE "graphite", reemerge gcc, and reemerge > world :) > > Rgds,
what does "graphite" add ? thanks -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc
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