install Qt doc, upgrade gcc and Qt

[kjslag]

I just installed Sabayon 3.5 and its performance is amazing. But I am very unfamiliar with equo (I am used to apt-get).

How can I install the Qt doc (so that typing assistant in the terminal will give me something useful? I think it currently doesn't work because the use flag for doc is turned off. Is that right? How do I change it?

How can I upgrade my version of gcc and Qt to the latest stable versions? This isn't as important, but would be nice. I want to new versions for compiling my own stuff, which is unrelated to KDE. So I'm not doing this to change the versions of gcc and Qt that compile source packages that are installed, but rather to compile my own, unrelated code.

Thanks

[wolfden]

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equo search gcc

will tell you which versions are in entropy, you may have to wait for a version to get bumped as it has to get built on the server machine and than into entropy.

as far as USE flags and packages with entropy - you can either recompile it yourself with the USE flag enabled or request the entropy package maintainers to rebuild the package with the flag. Please see viewtopic.php?f=76&t=13891 for more information on that.

[kjslag]

Ok. I think i'll just recompile with different use flags. So I'm assuming that I'll be using emerge to do that, so I can look at the docs for that myself.

But is there anything I should know about using emerge after having used entropy on my system?
Would it be wise to use the two package managers side by side? Or should I just remove entropy and use emerge (I think I prefer this method)? If so, how do I safely remove entropy?

[wolfden]

You should pick one package manager and stick with it, but there will be cases where you can't, but do keep in mind if you reinstall via entropy after compiling with special flags that it will loose those flags and will be restored back to entropy flags.

I'm using some 3rd party ebuilds and it's not effecting entropy at all.