rocky/rpms — comment on commit fcfc9777e79705230041af42143a7e2d4595dba8
File: specs/remake/remake.spec line 12
By zyv:

It might very well work on RHEL3/4, the question is rather what would be its utility on such platforms. RHEL (as opposed to Debian and Fedora) puts an enormous emphasis on the stability of the core in general and the toolchain in particular. That is if you are using RHEL3 for instance, either you are expected to be using the whole stack or go use later version / other distribution if this is what you want.

make is such an important part of the toolchain that the users will *never* upgrade it, so I am not quite sure how having remake based on later make that behaves differently from the platform make will help to debug problems specific to this particular platform and the version of make that comes with it.

So your argument doesn't quite convince me, but if you think 3.81 and 3.82 are very close, we might go for 3.82 and exclusivedist it to el5/6. In any case no active development is going on from el3/4 anyway...