Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > No, packages should be built with the distro compiler,
> > and no, whatever requires GCC 3 needs to be either excluded or fixed.
> >
> > This exception is a "no-no" IMHO.
>
> Well it can have the brand of compatibility;

Wasn't the original plan to package 'useful utilities' or something
among these lines? Now adding this old compiler just to be able to
compile a package written in historic C++ (didn't we talk about
maintainability / upstream support?), this old library because another
project didn't catch up with api changes (likewise), this new library
because this cool app unfortunately requires features only found in svn
HEAD of said library - where does this stop? I'm affraid that without a
hard rule of not duplicating packages from the distro, the new
repository won't be much different from existing repos (and I'm not sure
I would still want to participate in that).

Michal
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