Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:40:37 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <200605272140.46227.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060527040152.89907.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060527040152.89907.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--nextPart1419716.mo4ULem9Ks Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 27 May 2006 13:31, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > - Will we need a package with the shared libraries that come with gfortra= n? > many packages depend on blas/atlas and other libraries that need fortran > but a run dependency on the compiler package would be excessive IMHO. Why? This is no different to building, say, pygame.. Yes it needs Python, wow, w= hat=20 a suprise :) > - Perhaps we could remove of the C compiler too? not everyone builds > kernels/ports and the gfortran compiler package happens to include a good= C > compiler ;-). =46ortran isn't used for the base system, C & C++ are. (Yes I saw the smiley :) =09 =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1419716.mo4ULem9Ks Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEeEHG5ZPcIHs/zowRAqfWAJ97x+QQJPsvmTO8vkYFV08w4+kwigCfVBr6 sGg4hJvGvnLaQT9KtmXkFkk= =5n0O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1419716.mo4ULem9Ks--
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