Re: RFC: scraping old versions of some packages (r-base, llvm) on 10.13

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Should the following packages be blocked from 10.13 to minimize the number
> of variants being pushed forward?
>
> r-base31
> (r-base32 is already blocked from 10.13)
> r-base33
>
> llvm37
> llvm39
> Nothing uses either llvm3x.

Note that the implementation of llvm-clang, libomp-dev and
libomp-shlibs common split-offs in llvm50 (and the prior proposed
llvm40 which was never committed) will allow for a much more rapid
rate of deprecations of the llvmXY packages on new OS releases in the
future.

>
> python34
>
> I would love to get rid of boost1.55 as well, but 48 packages still use it.
>
> Unfortunately, dist blocking some R and python flavors will mean adding a
> Distribution field to pymods and rmods.
>
> Hanspeter
>
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