On Friday 21 October 2005 01:23 pm, Michiel de Bruijne wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2005 04:56, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:49 pm, Dan Meltzer wrote: > > > Why single out this one? ones system will not break irreperbly > > > without a cxx compiler, it'll just cause a another recompile to get it > > > to work after breakage if the person is using -* (which has already > > > been said to be hackish and ill-advised, so doom on them! > > > > it will actually > > > > if you build gcc w/out C++ support that means no libstdc++ > > > > no libstdc++ means python on most boxes is now broken > > > > no python means no emerge > > > > how exactly are you going to re-emerge gcc then ? oh, you cant ... > > Can you think of a situation where this is desired? If not, why not remove > the cxx IUSE and always build the C++-component?
i use the flag on my machines with different packages (including gcc) so yes, i can easily think of situations since i use them -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
