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; In fact GCC 3 is included both in Fedora & Debian for a reason. But if you look at the name in Fedora: "compat-gcc-34" you realize that it here only for compatibility and is used only for packages that need it, all standard packages use distro's default GCC. In short it is an addition, that is not intrusive, not a replacement GCC, against which packages to be built. GCC3, if built right, sits nicely together with GCC4. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org