Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > In my /usr/portage there were files concerning gcc-4.02 (and > even gcc-4.1.beta*). > > But they were silently ignored.
Of course. First emerge eix. Then run 'eix -e gcc'. You will see: ... *4.0.2-r3 *4.1.0_beta20060203 >From 'man eix' you will learn what the * means: that it is keyworded as -*. And 'man portage' will tell you what this means: "this indicates that the package is known to be broken..." Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list