On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:08:17 -0500 > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Question 1: is it desirable to e.g. switch compilers, compile systemd, >> and then switch back? > > This will horrifically break things like Portage's parallel build... > > Note that on every distribution except Gentoo, there are no problems > with running multiple versions of gcc simultaneously. >
Not really an apples to apples. If you exclusively use binary packages I suspect that you won't run into any of these problems on Gentoo either. However, the right way to do this isn't to toggle some global setting - it is to just apply specific settings when building specific packages. -- Rich
