Re: Forcing gcc to 2.95

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting paul@mackinney.net <paul@mackinney.net>:
> I'm not an expert with pinning rules, but there are two obvious
> problems:
> 
> 1. There are a lot of related packages that don't start with 'gcc'. For
> example, g++. So you might need more rules.
>

I don't have g++ installed so this is not a problem.
 
> 2. 'gcc-2.95' depends on 'gcc' which is a meta-package that will install
> version 3.3, etc. etc. (This according to what I can see in dselect.) I
> can't image how you're going to get around this with apt.
>

This matches what I observe.  I think this is a bug and will probably
report it.
 
> suggestion 1: Use dselect, you should be able to deinstall all kinds of
> things to save space. My experience is that it's better for tweaking &
> fine-tuning your packages than apt.
>

My experience is that dselect shows the same dependencies as apt, and
is a lot slower.  I'll try it again.
 
> suggestion 2: If space is that limited and you really never compile
> anything but the kernel, desinstall gcc and build the kernels for this
> machine somewhere else. (Not that you won't have thought of this
> already.)
>

This is really ugly, but probably doable.
 
> HTH, Paul

Thanks,
  Jeffrey