compat-gcc in extras

[dragoran]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore schrieb:
>   
>> On Friday 11 August 2006 07:57, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:11:23PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
>>>       
>>>> buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> New package compat-gcc-34
>>>>> 	Compatibility GNU Compiler Collection
>>>>>           
>>>> Why is this needed in Fedora Core?
>>>>         
>>> 1) GCC 3.4.6 is the last one to ship with G77, while Gfortran is quite far
>>>    even in the Fortran77 compatibility, it is not yet there and some people
>>>    have huge Fortran77 codebases, not to mention that Gfortran runtime
>>>    is in any case ABI incompatible with G77 runtime
>>> 2) similarly, not all third party C++ sources are ready for GCC 4.1.x, so
>>>    a secondary compiler is often handy until they manage to rewrite it
>>> 3) in the end, all that changed from previous amount of binary packages
>>>    is the addition of one new src.rpm - as many compat-gcc-32 subpackages
>>>    were nuked at the same time as the number of added compat-gcc-34
>>>    subpackages
>>>       
>> And  none of  those reasons  stop any of the compat-gcc packages being in 
>> extras. 
>>     
>
> Agreed.
>
>   
>> IMHO they all should move to extras.
>>     
>
> +1
>
>   
>> gcc should be in core 
>> compat-gcc-*  should be in extras.  Unless there is something in core that 
>> requires the older gcc
>>     
>
> <rant>
> Well, it seems Core developers don't want to discuss this. I especially
> liked the attitude in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201913#c2
> <irony>
> The comment describes in a nice and verbose way why this package has to
> be in Core.
> </irony>
> </rant>
>
> CU
> thl
>
>   
the only thing about extras is that for extras you need a internet 
connection, else there wont be a problem with it in extras.