Concerning Clang 3.3 and the massive trail of GCC add-ons

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Firstly,

Thanks for packaging this. It saves time in my life and I truly 
appreciate the effort, though I must confess to having a localized 
/usr/local copy of compiler-rt, clang, llvm, libcxxabi, libc++, 
test-suite, clang extra built nightly on my dev system.

My question concerns the GCC baggage:

$ sudo apt-get -t experimental install clang-3.3

The following packages will be REMOVED:
   compiler-rt
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   clang-3.3 cpp-4.8 gcc-4.8 gcc-4.8-base libasan0 libatomic1 
libcloog-ppl1 libgcc-4.7-dev libgcc-4.8-dev
   libgfortran-4.7-dev libobjc-4.7-dev libtsan0 llvm-3.3 llvm-3.3-dev 
llvm-3.3-runtime
The following packages will be upgraded:
   cpp-4.7 fixincludes g++-4.7 gcc-4.7 gcc-4.7-base gcc-4.7-plugin-dev 
gfortran-4.7 gobjc++-4.7 gobjc-4.7
   libgcc1 libgfortran3 libgomp1 libitm1 libmudflap0 libmudflap0-4.7-dev 
libobjc4 libquadmath0 libstdc++6
   libstdc++6-4.7-dev
19 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 1 to remove and 174 not upgraded.
Need to get 87.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 130 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

I understand and expect when a latest compiler-rt against trunk you 
choose to build against arrives that removal will not exist.

I don't grasp the need for all the gcc-4.8 and gcc-4.7 baggage seeing as 
the only need for gcc is to build a first copy of llvm/clang and from 
there it self-hosts.

What is the point of all this extra that I have zero use for from 
Experimental? I've got gcc-4.7.2 from Sid installed and that's all one 
needs.

Clarification would be appreciated,

Sincerely,

Marc J. Driftmeyer