Am 08.10.2014 um 11:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka: > 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. > > >
luckily, I did have gcc 4.8 installed, until now I just did not have a reason to switch. Afterwards emerging the rest was a non-issue. emerge @preserved-rebuild is not happy, of course because of kactivities-4 and -5 not liking each other.. let them be unhappy...
