From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 12:10:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8743A16A4FB for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 12:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F5B43D48 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 12:10:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp230-239.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.230.239]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4RCAntW028396 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 27 May 2006 21:40:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:40:37 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060527040152.89907.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060527040152.89907.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1419716.mo4ULem9Ks"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605272140.46227.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Steve Kargl Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:11:45 -0000 --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--