On 10/09/2014 04:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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... > > > >
You can have both at the same time by merging kactivities:4 with minimal USE flag. That will be handled automatically by a new profile in due course.
