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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:04:17PM -0600, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> This extends to things like gcc2x; I wish we still had ports for those,
> and gcc34 is DEPRECATED because only 3 ports still require it. Nevermind
> some developer may be using it to maintain maximum portability for their
> project. Gentoo Portage has 30 something GCC versions available (10 of
> which are "stable").

The counter-argument is: if something is in the ports tree, our users
expect it to work.  Keeping things around that have bitrotted merely
means a bad experience for them.  Furthermore, the more versions in the
tree, the more users scratch their heads and say "yeah, sure, but which
one should *I* use?"

I suspect most people don't even see the DEPRECATED messages as they
install things -- they simply scroll off the screen with the rest.

OTOH I personally prefer a month or more of headsup; this way, at least
one warning email from portsmon will have gone out to ports@.

mcl