Now that gcc42 is a final release, what should be done with all the ports that depend on gcc41? Should they be updated to require gcc42 instead? It's not very many ports: devel/lua-numlua gnustep/gnustep-base gnustep/gnustep-make lang/ftidy python/py-numpy/Portfile textproc/pdftk There are also a few still using gcc40: lang/ftidy math/GiNaC math/R math/fftw-3-single math/fftw-3 math/nestedsums math/octave-forge math/octave science/libnc-dap science/xloops www/varnish x11/fluxbox Assuming gcc42 is capable of building each of the above ports, and that the port authors update these ports to use gcc42, is there a need to keep these old versions of gcc around? It's annoying enough for the user to have to spend a couple hours on an Intel Mac, or many many hours on a slower PowerPC, to compile a single version of gcc. It would be even more annoying if the user wanted to use various different ports, each of which required a different version of gcc.