Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:26:59
Message-Id: 1629949.a07gNpRjfP@pinacolada
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc by "Michał Górny"
1 Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 14:35:48 CEST schrieb Michał Górny:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'm thinking of masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc, in particular
5 > older than the 4.9 branch.
6 >
7
8 Masking is fine; some time later (maybe in a few months) I'd even suggest
9 masking all of gcc-4. After all, unmasking them if you really need them is
10 rather easy.
11
12 About removing them (what William proposed), I'd keep what we have now. We had
13 this discussion already in lots of detail in the past, and convincing points
14 were made to keep one of each 4.x ...
15
16 --
17 Andreas K. Hüttel
18 dilfridge@g.o
19 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>