Update recipes/_current_repodata_hack/meta.yaml
@@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ about:
home: https://github.com/conda-forge/_current_repodata_hack-feedstock
license: LicenseRef-OTHER
summary: Meta-package to fix current_repodata
+ description: |
+ As of writing, conda-forge has versions of the linux compilers that are ahead of the
+ ones in the global pinnings. The current_repodata.json file only pulls in the latest
+ version of a package by default. Thus anytime one asks for the compilers in the pinnings,
+ the solver will always fail on current_repodata.json and have to pull all of the repodata.
+ The packages here make sure the latest versions of the compilers we use are in
+ current_repodata.json by depending on those packages. Thus it solves the solver inefficiency.
+ It also helps in cases when the solver appears to pull older builds of the compilers when they are
+ not explicitly asked for in the environment.
extra:
recipe-maintainers:
