On 2016-05-11, Jonathan Callen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking further at the ebuilds in question, it appears that if you wish
> to have older versions of GCC installed with >=gcc-4.9, you need to have
> USE=multislot on the *newer* versions of gcc (this USE=multislot doesn't
> appear to be completely broken like the old USE=multislot was; now the
> SLOTs are constant with respect to USE).
So slots no longer "just work" like they have for the past 15 years?
You now have to explicitly request installation in a slot by setting
the multislot flag?
Did I miss an eselect news warning about this?
Is this true for all packages that were previously installed in slots,
or have gcc and a select few been chosen specially for this breakage?
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