Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sounds 5216 days ago
To further support your point, the rollback to gcc 2.95 happened across many linux distributions due to incompatible changes in the language that happened at the gcc 3.0 version.

Many distributions rolled back so that the default "stable" compiler matched the one they had to use to build the packages - i.e. common sense.

Once the packages were updated to deal with the gcc 3.x language changes, the compiler and packages started appearing together.