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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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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
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