On Thursday 24 June 2010 15:54:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:46:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > What does emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y > > > @world > > > > > > actually say? > > > > I'm not sure this is correct but I have to ask this. Since gcc is a > > system package, it wouldn't try to upgrade gcc even if one was > > available would it? I guess if something in world just had to have > > that or a newer version then it would pull the newer gcc in but > > otherwise it would skip it right? > > @world includes @system. But the problem is not that emerge world is > skipping it but that it wants to downgrade gcc:4.4.
So obviously he has <sys-devel-gcc-4.4.4 or similar in a BDEPEND somewhere -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
