[csw-maintainers] gar and php question

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Sun Jun 05 23:40:17 -0400 2011:
>
>> i'm not sure that that serves any useful purpose, other than
>> /opt/csw/bin/php I think adding the symlink, effectively
>> accomplishes "moving php5 into the normal namespace"
>
> Well, it is useful as php4 is not supported upstream and we have the
> supported branch (although even our php5 version is unsupported now
> until I get the update finished).  Removing it from the catalog won't
> prevent those that want it from getting it, but we should make those
> people 'work' for it

why?

> and not provide some pretense that it's a supported package.

we have plenty of packages that are no longer "supported" (ie:
orphaned), but we still keep available.
What specific problem does it solve to remove php4 from our catalog?