Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 18:24:32 schrieb Anthony G. Basile: > > Well the side effect of this is that arcane and unmaintainable bandworms > > like toolchain.eclass are generated, with dozens of case distinctions > > for packages that *nearly* noone needs. Yes it's fine to keep old things > > for a few people, does it merit slowing everyone else down though? > > > > Do we really need glibc 2.9_p20081201-r3, 2.10.1-r1, 2.11.3, 2.12.1-r3, > > 2.12.2, 2.13-r2, 2.14, 2.14.1-r2, 2.14.1-r3, 2.15-r1, 2.15-r2, 2.15-r3, > > 2.16.0, 2.17, 2.18-r1, 2.19, 2.19-r1, and 2.20? > > I can't fully speak to this as I'm not familiar. But are you?
No, I'm not. Which is why I am asking. I'm happy to learn. > > (On a related note, do we really need gcc 2.95.3-r10, 3.3.6-r1, 3.4.6-r2, > > 4.0.4, 4.1.2, 4.2.4-r1, 4.3.6-r1, 4.4.7, 4.5.1-r1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3-r2, > > 4.5.4, 4.6.0, 4.6.1-r1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.4, 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2-r1, > > 4.7.3-r1, 4.7.4, 4.8.0, 4.8.1-r1, 4.8.2, 4.8.3, 4.9.0, 4.9.1, and (deep > > breath) 4.9.2? > > Between 4.8.3 and 4.8.4 there were 80 bug fixes with a yet unknown > number of regressions. Most people that hit these kinds of problems > revert to the previous working versions. OK, so then let's keep all 4.7.x, 4.8.x, 4.9.x, the latest stable 4.5 and 4.6, and maybe 3.4. > Add to that the quantum leaps > between 4.X and 4.(X+1) with no backwards compat in abis. Plus the fact > that some sensitive software usually aimed a special chips need specific > versions and the answer is ... yes. One of the many moments when I really wish we had gentoostats up and running. Is it possible to emerge @system with, say, e.g. gcc-4.0 or 4.1? From the discussions about hardened 3.x is still interesting. But how much can you still do with it, does anyone try regularly? Is anyone even testing 2.95 anymore? > What happened here (in part) is the way we're doing multilib is > percolating through gentoo and hitting things it doesn't mesh with > well. That's fine we have to glue things together correctly. Throwing > stuff away when it doesn't mesh is not fine when its something good. Please explain the specific connection of this problem with multilib. (Shouldn't you usually use the same gcc version for your whole system as far as you can?) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/
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