2017-04-26 0:26 GMT+02:00 Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org>: > Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 14:35:48 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: > > Hi, > > > > I'm thinking of masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc, in particular > > older than the 4.9 branch. > > > > Masking is fine; some time later (maybe in a few months) I'd even suggest > masking all of gcc-4. After all, unmasking them if you really need them is > rather easy. >
well if the intent is cleaning adding a package mask is just more burden, not less. If they compile fine with the latest stable gcc better leave them unmasked, right? > > About removing them (what William proposed), I'd keep what we have now. We > had > this discussion already in lots of detail in the past, and convincing > points > were made to keep one of each 4.x ... > do you have any pointers or keyword to search? Because once upon a time there were incompatible changes frequently (2.95 => 3.x with x < 4 was bloody) but nowadays everything "C" seem more stable. And the switch to c++11 still ongoing started with 4.8 and far less problematic. Maybe different arches than amd64? Binary packages? Embedded platforms? > > -- > Andreas K. Hüttel > dilfri...@gentoo.org > Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
