Hi, I started emerge -e @world
and it stops with this message: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/releases/17.0/package.mask: # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> (27 May 2017) # In the 17.0 profiles we assume that our system compiler uses C++14 # or later as default language setting. This means it has to be at # least GCC 6. If you need an older compiler for specific purposes, # feel free to unmask it, however, using it for normal emerging of # packages is neither recommended nor supported in any way. =sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0-r3 # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/releases/17.0/package.mask: # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> (27 May 2017) # In the 17.0 profiles we assume that our system compiler uses C++14 # or later as default language setting. This means it has to be at # least GCC 6. If you need an older compiler for specific purposes, # feel free to unmask it, however, using it for normal emerging of # packages is neither recommended nor supported in any way. =sys-devel/gcc-4.9.4 For me it is unclear, whether I should unmask or mask these compilers. So I added them to /etc/portage/package.mask/. ,restarted the whole thing only to get the same message. So...from the logical point of view unmasking would be the correct way....but we are all urged to >gcc-6.4.0 ... so unmasking would be wrong...also from a logical point of view. Cheers Meino
