[csw-maintainers] Retiring old versions of GCC

Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński maciej at opencsw.org
Sat Sep 10 20:55:33 CEST 2011


2011/8/28 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
>> 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.

The rt packages need to stay as long as other packages depend on them.
 I hope that with time we will rebuild or remove dependent packages.

Maciej


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