Now, that I've got your attention. IMHO above should NOT fail - most of the software in portage is already using ${HOST}-gcc instead and gcc symlink is just a convenience.
But it does. In packages I will never suspect being nasty (qt, lynx) and ones I would, but they shouldn't (fuse) What is so important in that feature? Crosscompilation and distcc. For example, I have alpha-unknown-linux-gnu running as a distcc server for x86 box. And, it does not work for those packages. I got sick of filling 3 almost identical bug reports 110040, 110086 and 110087 and I'm not even at half of emerge -uD world. So, if you agree that it IS a problem, do the `rm` and run ebuilds you maintain. You will save me another 10 or so unnended bugreports. Tomasz
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