David Timms <dtimms <at> iinet.net.au> writes:
> Yes, it is a defining part of a distro release - everything has to be
> built against it; once that is done, it is no longer the same release,
> and no packages built against the original gcc will probably work properly.
That's not really true. It's true for gfortran and for GCJ packages directly
linked to the libgcj.so instead of using the indirect dispatch API, which both
don't amount to that many packages, and compat packages could be provided
there. (F9 has a compat package for the gfortran 4.1 library.)
What's more the problem is that many packages needed fixing to build with GCC
4.3, so the current F8 branch wouldn't build anymore, causing trouble with
getting updates built. GCC changing under you would also annoy third-party
developers and third-party package repositories.
Kevin Kofler
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