Bug 201989

Summary:	please mask <sys-devel/gcc-4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) <carlo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-11 22:05:23 UTC

As discussed in bug 161953, Portage does the right thing to resolve a virtual to an already installed package, which causes users problems in case of virtual/libstdc++ as you can read in this¹ sticky thread - and there are a lot more of these, discussing the very same issue. You might suspect that some newbies even manage to break their toolchain or system by installing incompatible GCC versions, filing invalid bugs, here. So, given that we do not support older versions, masking them would solve the problem, without holding users back to install older GCC versions, if they really like to.



[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-577369.html

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-11 22:07:48 UTC

Good luck w/ this; also see Bug 201035

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183766 ***