Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> writes:

> On Apr 25, 2015, at 11:53 AM, petr wrote:
>> 
>> On 25 Apr 2015, at 17:49, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2015, at 5:49 AM, petr wrote:
>>> 
>>>> To my understanding the +clang3{0,1,2} refer to clang-3.{0,1,2} 
>>>> respectively.
>>> 
>>> Yup.
>>> 
>>>> These clang ports are no obsolete.
>>> 
>>> Yup.
>>> 
>>>> However, there are still quite some ports around with these variants, so I 
>>>> guess these clang3{0,1,2} variants (and maybe others) should be removed?
>>> 
>>> Yup.
>> 
>> Okay,
>> anything else which should be considered for a "variant cleanup"? 
>> 
>> I guess the same applies to dragonegg3? < dragonegg33. I would also propose 
>> to remove all +gcc4? < gcc47 and all related openmpi and mpich variants. I 
>> am CCing Sean and Eric explicitly for their involvement in compiler 
>> Portgroup, openmpi or mpich, respectively.
>
> The clang30, clang31 and clang32 variants should be removed from any ports 
> where they exist because the clang-3.0, clang-3.1 and clang-3.2 ports they 
> depend on are already marked as being replaced by clang-3.4, so they already 
> cannot be installed and those variants are already broken.
>
> The gcc variants you mention, on the other hand, should still be working 
> fine, since the corresponding gcc ports still exist and should still work 
> fine. So I have no particular rush or inclination to do any mass removal of 
> these variants. Or would removing them solve some problem you're having?

Yeah, I would agree with Ryan here. I can work on updating the compilers
portgroup and see where that leads.
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