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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #65987, comment 4

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2	2	> Requested vs unrequested variants are handled correctly in MP 2.7+, though of course a requested variant could still become unsupported in future. Seems like the compilers PG should not create variants for compilers that are not supported on the current platform?
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4		It doesn't. But the issue is users (who do not update that often) will have ports installed that do still depend on the old gcc versions, and it seems running an update tries to update the gcc dependency (and fails) before it updates the port itself, which would then I gather migrate to the newer dep.
	4	It doesn't. But the issue is users (who do not update that often) will have ports installed that do still depend on the old gcc versions, and it seems running an update tries to update the gcc dependency (and fails) before it updates the port itself, which would then I gather migrate to the newer dep and thus remove the dep on the old no-longer supported gcc version.
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