From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC969139694 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C47A021C060; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74A1921C012 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [91.246.103.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bircoph) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58080341706 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:56:18 +0300 From: Andrew Savchenko To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc Message-Id: <20170428015618.d3e5f78797bd4dc394b3befc@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20170427152708.GA11643@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> References: <1492950948.19560.1.camel@gentoo.org> <1629949.a07gNpRjfP@pinacolada> <20170427152708.GA11643@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA512"; boundary="Signature=_Fri__28_Apr_2017_01_56_18_+0300_ozjzJ_FJdf3+erA3" X-Archives-Salt: ba475600-fee6-473a-85f2-63b682ac1272 X-Archives-Hash: 51b2ee52c30c444cdf8ec0c603daf5d0 --Signature=_Fri__28_Apr_2017_01_56_18_+0300_ozjzJ_FJdf3+erA3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:27:08 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:26:19AM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 14:35:48 CEST schrieb Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rn= y: > > > Hi, > > >=20 > > > I'm thinking of masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc, in particular > > > older than the 4.9 branch. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Masking is fine; some time later (maybe in a few months) I'd even sugge= st=20 > > masking all of gcc-4. After all, unmasking them if you really need them= is=20 > > rather easy. > >=20 > > About removing them (what William proposed), I'd keep what we have now.= We had=20 > > this discussion already in lots of detail in the past, and convincing p= oints=20 > > were made to keep one of each 4.x ... >=20 > I"m not talking about 4.x, just 2.x and 3.x. I'm not even talking about > masking 4.x. I'm sure there may be reasons to keep these in the tree. >=20 > I'm just questioning why we need 2.x and 3.x in the main tree. I still use fortran software which needs 3.4.x g77. There may be similar cases for people to use 2.95. IMO removing older gcc will do much more harm than good. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko --Signature=_Fri__28_Apr_2017_01_56_18_+0300_ozjzJ_FJdf3+erA3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE63ZIHsdeM+1XgNer9lNaM7oe5I0FAlkCdxIACgkQ9lNaM7oe 5I1pChAAl2CR+4dXxm0aKrgdukh/0D8laPTIoLV/T+GTliOBkG7XBspB8KH2EJBI O78Y/eRuKTt/dxNbjgCYktuA9NH45FN9YSFgB8UzvmSkVvU8uuC9uXyq5OoVHUTx JaWgdfEspCaNBQX4HaIYGxdGiG0IN47n9eokoZfhdecXgbydFjR2BQQ+0TK4G5Md wZagGEGhBNxxk5EjBT/QBFqf8CWYsptWInTwsoU6Lx8CCL4KjnggmNphm+4A8dbg kZFTTx380jSqR9tGoe6P+hQd29vM0rKHbgXMo3pOuu3WYK/WgpBdLl/LcBng0W8f 2jHYjsGpFkq/TI85WMrMz/yV+KDTAdgW1/0K1hvQqErZbmJzB5PPvJHA764JbvBW RXYx5dmnrP4b9RMgOQl9ZXRkh2zfdUZk4XATcmQeylLImEG+LzGJCARs96BM/knv A2m3qylDlwyzqeF9oZyrGxWMTA74DroZn4SwcHZ1qEtSftfMm2X/vcjAbmlVZAL7 FZpFlp4ZBGcV59a/Vcs67zsegRpuFf/DXcGDa3nekyqNIJWPzsmZGDZtR0abaCPL k1Aqcv+6Nlyh0+5gZbjAzDdHe43pg9JOGZGnFUIzbXMpx30xu/PfawDS41g6YLTG p5+zjvKDUjUSBG7OxznyBDdLLUZNZln/tRBFz8H6fU+zXyJnmUI= =F9iV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Fri__28_Apr_2017_01_56_18_+0300_ozjzJ_FJdf3+erA3--