Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:52:04 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Rucci <dan@rucci.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ... Message-ID: <47874A54.4020306@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <478737B7.5070706@rucci.org> References: <477D5FE2.4080008@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <477D6310.2060406@FreeBSD.org> <477FAD02.8040505@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <477FAE00.5070001@FreeBSD.org> <478737B7.5070706@rucci.org>
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Daniel Rucci wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >> No, it's not convenient. There is a large maintenance cost for >> keeping the fortran compiler in the base system for little gain >> (nothing in FreeBSD uses it), and it is also only of use to a small >> subset of FreeBSD users, so this is a perfect situation where moving >> it to the ports collection made sense. > Does this mean i can take WITHOUT_FORTRAN out of my /etc/src.conf? If > thats the case, src.conf(5) should be updated. Probably, can you contact ru@ or file a PR? Kris
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