Bug 83886

Summary:	GCC and Binutils noslot use flag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kaiting Chen <Phoenixfire159>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Kaiting Chen 2005-03-02 15:18:33 UTC

I was looking through my Gentoo system today, and I realized that these different gcc and binutils slots, and gcc-config and binutils-config were really unnecessary for me. I'm only using 1 gcc and 1 binutils. It's kind of confusing how all of the files have their own directories, etc. I'm proposing a noslot flag for gcc and binutils that will have them install in their default locations, rather than in versioned and CHOST'ed directories.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-02 15:36:13 UTC

Slotting is an integral part of Gentoo and can't be disabled via some use flag.

Comment 2 Kaiting Chen 2005-03-02 17:45:53 UTC

Why not?
use noslot && SLOT="0" || SLOT="Whatever it is right now..."

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2005-03-02 19:12:58 UTC

if you only want one gcc and one binutils, just unmerge the other ones. this works perfectly fine already. gcc-config is still valid even with a single gcc, as it enables selection between the normal/hardened-gcc modes.

btw your proposed code example there breaks portage's deptree cache and calculations.