[csw-maintainers] Retiring old versions of GCC

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Sun Aug 28 09:06:47 -0400 2011:

> > Apart from multi-version support, we can also think about retiring the
> > older versions of gcc.  When there's no reason to keep an old version
> > around, I'd suggest removing it, although I understand it's painful to
> > remove something that e.g. once required a lot of work to get in.  But
> > keeping old unused software around only clutters the catalog.  For
> > example, there might potentially still be a use case for gcc-3, but I
> > doubt that there's any reason to keep gcc2 around. What are your
> > thoughts, and how would you approach the issue?
> 
> I don't have any objection toward its removal. However, is there a
> conflict with the current or future gcc releases? If there is no
> conflict don't remove it.

I think we need to retain the *rt packages though...either that or
also drop the few things that depend on them.  I don't have any
comment on whether or not that is good/bad as I don't use those
packages.  In this case, I'd likely err toward leaving the *rt
packages around.

Thanks
-Ben
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