On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 02:46 +0200, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I must say I have been wondering about this for a while too. > A solution might be add some sort of flag to packages that are binary, > and then let portage install libstdc++ the first time you install this > kind of package.
You're right.
We could even make it a dependency based on the gcc version. Wouldn't
that be neat? Maybe something like this:
|| ( <=gcc-3.3*
libstdc++-v3 )
For the humor impaired, this was a joke. Why is it a joke? Because
you're missing the non-binary packages that this completely breaks.
Want a cool, small example? Install gcc 3.3, configure it as your
primary compiler, emerge fluxbox, upgrade to gcc 3.4 and remove all
traces of gcc 3.3 and libstdc++-v3, then try running fluxbox.
Basically, vapier got tired of all of the "my $foo package is broken"
bugs because people didn't realize that anything that linked against the
older gcc would *require* being recompiled to work properly. The
solution? Add this library by default.
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux
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