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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>,
	guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
	guix-science@gnu.org
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Doing away with CentOS 6 support (Linux faux-2.6)?
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:54:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8987hz5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87msulbpgl.fsf@inria.fr>

Hi,

On Thu, 07 Dec 2023 at 23:46, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:

> Back in 2018, this was deemed important for HPC clusters, where CentOS 6
> was then relatively common, as Ricardo explained:

Héhé!  A colleague re-installed CentOS 6 this week; for testing
purpose.  Hum… :-)

> Five years later, it seems reasonable to drop the patch (which is likely
> untested these days).  If you disagree, now’s the time to make your
> voice heard!

Yeah, let drop this patch.  Well, CentOS 7 will be soon end of life so
it seems very reasonable to drop patches for CentOS 6 only.

Cheers,
simon



      reply	other threads:[~2023-12-08 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-07 22:46 Doing away with CentOS 6 support (Linux faux-2.6)? Ludovic Courtès
2023-12-08 16:54 ` Simon Tournier [this message]

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