Thoughts about D package management on Gentoo

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On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 05:21:22 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea how to go about GDC, especially once
> the D front-end is integrated? Since GCC installations are
> configured with gcc-config, there is a conflict for "eselect
> dlang". To clarify, gcc-config copies the executables from
>
> /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/<version>/*
> to
> /usr/bin/*
>
> I guess I should just stick to DMD and LDC for it then?
> By the way "dc" is already the name of an arbitrary precision
> expression evaluator and cannot be used for a symlink to the D
> compiler of choice. :p

I ignore gcc-config for GDC and explicitly maintain list of files 
to install and their target locations (it is very short). Not 
very gcc-ish but more allows more consistent deployment between 
different D compilers.