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On Thu, 30 May 2013 09:54:38 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/05/13 02:46 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:22:32 -0500 William Hubbs
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> We could probably also turn gcc-config into an eselect module if
> >> we want to use that argument.
> > 
> > Someone did, but unfortunately gcc-config is a big pile of poorly 
> > understood voodoo, so eclectic gcc ended up being abandoned.
> > 
> 
> The eselect-gcc wrapper was almost an alias though, wasn't it?  ie, it
> just called gcc-config underneath?

At least one of the eselect gcc implementations was "from scratch".

> Is there interest in reviving this?  All of our documentation has
> discussed using gcc-config directly for so long, i'm not sure if
> there'd be that much adoption...

It would be good, in the name of consistency. It would also be a great
opportunity to fix Gentoo's unique inability to have multiple libstdc++
versions usable simultaneously.

- -- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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