On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 22:47:50 +0900 hero...@gentoo.org wrote: > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> writes: > > And that brings another issue in Gentoo -- gcc-config. AFAIR this > > tool is completely insane and switches libstdc++ along with gcc > > version. As a result, after switching to a gcc version with > > different C++ ABI, installed software gets broken. And you can't > > really fix it without going through the broken-system state or some > > hackery. > > Not that insane. Packages linked with libstdc++ are not crucial in > Gentoo, and can be rebuilt with emerge -e @world. Although it's a bad > idea for everybody to do so, the systems without "emerge -e @world" > for two years is likely to suck anyway. > > It just reflects the fact that the world is not perfect.
Gentoo is the only distribution that gets this wrong. It's self inflicted, not a problem with the world. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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