Thoughts about D package management on Gentoo

[Wyatt]

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

On this point, it may be time to get on Freenode and hit up 
#gentoo-dev-help and see what they say.  Off the top of my head, 
EAPI 2 introduced USE deps, so you may be able to get away with 
specifying sys-devel/gcc[d] as fulfilling your virtual.

As far as eselect goes, I would use that only for fixing up the 
environment and the paths in sc.ini (and the primary compiler 
symlink, if you choose to go that route). I'm not familiar with 
the guts of it, but from what I've been told, an eselect module 
for gcc has been tried several times, but has always met 
unfortunate circumstances.

-Wyatt