Hello, An update has come for GCC 4.5 but I don't want to start using it until I test it well in a non productive system. So I still have selected GCC 4.4 as the default. After doing a world update (after the USE flags for perl and python were removed as default), I wanted to do a depclean, and here's what it listed: >> These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-lang/swig selected: 1.3.40-r1 protected: none omitted: none dev-perl/TermReadKey selected: 2.300.0 protected: none omitted: none sys-devel/gcc selected: 4.4.5 protected: none omitted: 4.5.3-r1 sys-kernel/hardened-sources selected: 2.6.38-r6 2.6.39-r8 protected: none omitted: 3.0.4-r1 But: gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5-hardenednopie [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5-hardenednopiessp [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5-hardenednossp [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5-vanilla [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3 [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3-hardenednopie [8] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3-hardenednopiessp [9] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3-hardenednossp [10] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3-vanilla This is the emerge --info output: Portage 2.1.10.11 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-hardened-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-hardened-r8-i686-AMD_Sempron-tm-_2200+-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo local_overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en es" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri gdbm gpm hardened iconv mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pax_kernel pcre pic pppd readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd udev unicode urandom x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_default authn_file authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid deflate dir disk_cache env expires filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_http rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en es" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="hp hp3500 hp3900 hp4200 hp5400 hp5590 hpljm1005 hpsj5s hs2p" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 intel mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa via vmware nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
echo =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5* >> /var/lib/portage/world
(In reply to comment #1) > echo =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5* >> /var/lib/portage/world Oh, there's a problem with that one, of course, but you get my meaning: echo sys-devel/gcc:4.4 >> /var/lib/portage/world