On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 00:59:29 +0000, antlists wrote: > > It means you probably spent a lot of time compile gcc versions only to > > carry on using the old version, but as you said, this wasn't about > > efficiency. You were going to emerge -e @world at the end anyway, > > which would get everything built with the latest toolchain. > > > As I remember, you always had to use eselect to switch versions ... and > witness all the chaos with python at the moment ... > > If you leave things "at the default", doesn't that screw you over when > python/kernel/gcc etc upgrade and a depclean deletes your original > default version? Or is that now fixed so you can't mess things up that > way?
You can't because eselect always shows a fallback option, which will be used should you unmerge the selected version. -- Neil Bothwick IMPORTANT: The entire physical universe, including this message, may one day collapse back into an infinitesimally small space. Should another universe subsequently re-emerge, the existence of this message in that universe cannot be guaranteed.
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