why does fglrx driver forces installing gcc 3.3?

[rogerdv]

I want to install ati drivers, but when I try to emerge them, gcc 3.3 is required. Can I avoid this or do I have to lost my gcc 4 to have ati drivers? My system is amd64.
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[didymos]

It's not gcc specifically. It actually wants virtual/libstdc++, which can also be satisfied by sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 or sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-bin. It shouldn't be defaulting to gcc for that, but even if for some reason you had to install gcc-3.3, it's in it's own slot and you'd be under no obligation to use it as the system compiler. Anyway, just emerge libstdc++-v3 or mask <gcc-4 in /etc/portage/package.mask.
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[mark_alec]

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