On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> wrote:

On 08/18/2016 05:57 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

Can we not just have an updated gcc package in EPEL? It wouldn't be
hard to make one. Or do we have to not conflict with whatever Red Hat
might put in one of their addons? Even then it would be easy to avoid
both file and package name conflicts.

I don't see why not (we only promise to not conflict with a couple base channels), though I'm willing to believe that it would be hard, especially for EL6.

devtoolset is designed to do all of this and is already done, so it seems that the only advantage to putting it in EPEL itself would be to reduce the number of repos during build time. In my opinion that's not a big enough advantage to justify all of the work that would be involved.