Re: GCC 5 transition
On Tuesday 11 August 2015, anxiousmac@gmail.com wrote:
> A week ago I stupidly upgraded my unstable amd64 system whilst half asleep
> (muon does not seem as insistent on warning you about potential removals),
> losing kontact, muon and a few other things.
>
> I was also affected by the need to downgrade breeze to get the desktop to
> boot.
>
> I can see enormous amounts of work going on on the qt-kde mailing list, so
> this is not any sort of a complaint, but does anyone know how long it
> might be before I can reinstall the lost packages?
>
> I have been quite good at fixing my unstable problems over the years, but
> this one has me a bit beaten. Do I still need to hold the breeze packages
> too?
>
Why does the KDE and Qt packaged depend on specific versions of GCC anyway, Qt
doesn't care about libstdc++ ABI, you can link to two different incompatible
versions and it will work fine.
`Allan
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