On 10/08/2014 07:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > so after spending hours fighting to upgrade boost, I finally got to the > point were portage let me emerge kde-framework. > > I went to bed. > > I woke up 2h later... only 9 packages were installed, the rest skipped > because of wrong gcc. > > Crap like that should be told right at the start.
This is carryover from KDE 4. In all packages except kdelibs, the GCC check was in pkg_setup instead of pkg_pretend to save time during dependency resolution (think emerging 300 KDE packages at once). I did some quick tests and I'm not convinced that the small time saving justifies bending the rules and causing the sort of issue you ran into.
