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Re: Packages dependent on obsolete gcc4
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:22:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: Packages dependent on obsolete gcc4
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On Jul 29 21:32, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >> clang, imake, ocaml-base, and octave-devel actually call gcc, so
> >> those deps are correct; logiweb might as well.
> >
> > Define "correct". They require gcc4, rather than gcc. So the deps
> > still have to be fixed.
>
> AFAICS, the dependence on gcc-4 will cause any gcc-4 present on the
> system to be deleted due to the empty obsolescence package and the
> dependence of that package to gcc will pull in the correct package for
> the current distro. The removal of an old gcc-4 would not happen if the
> package dependencies would simply point to gcc, I'd think. Whenever new
> packages are rolled with the current gcc, the dependencies will be
> updated to refer to the new packages and the obsolescence packages can
> be removed.
Ah, ok.
Thanks,
Corinna
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