On Tuesday 22 August 2006 23:50, Richard Fish wrote: > > Now I'm confused.. ;) Would pruning the old gcc before running emerge -e > > world break anything that's isn't a C++ app? > > Well, technically, no. But considering that some python modules are > implemented in C++ and link against libstdc++ (which is provided by > gcc), pruning old versions of gcc without rebuilding python against > the new version first risks breaking python, and thus portage, and > thus "would be bad....very bad." ;-)
I see. Thanks for clarifying. :) -- Bo Andresen
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