Re: system set no longer in part of world set

Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:28 -0400
> Doug Goldstein <cardoe <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Olivier Crête wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know
>>>> how to address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be
>>>> updated to contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need 
>>>> RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me.
>>> I though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one
>> of the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update.
>>     
>
> Now that's a big exaggeration. It _might_ be missing from world updates
> (there are still many cases where it will be included), but that's not
> the only available operation in portage.
>
> Marius
>   
We discussed this in #gentoo-portage the other day where I had a machine 
that was on gcc 4.3.1 (not -r1) and glibc 2.7 and didn't want to upgrade 
either of those packages to the latest ~arch.