On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:08:22PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

> I'm curious why gcc-2.95 or even gcc-3.3 is still in the archives? Is
> there a mistrust for newer stuff or something related to stability as
> is the case with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels? Thanks...

Because some people may still have legacy source code that requires one
of those versions to build, and they aren't yet ready to port that code
to a newer compiler.

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