Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
I don't believe retro-actively modifying the 2006.0 profile is a good
idea in general. The profile currently says that for x86, gcc
must be ">=sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1" - if you do
# emerge >=sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1
on a current tree you'll get a much higher version. Still, it's up to
releng if they wish to change it.
Even if you modify the profile to "mask" gcc-3.3.x, it won't force people to
unmerge their existing gcc-3.3.x since it's slotted and they would already have
gcc-3.4.x emerged, correct? And if we can't force them to unmerge it, we can't
force them to switch which gcc version is active. Masking in the profile would
have no effect if this is true.
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