From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 8 20: 1:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lambic.physics.montana.edu (lambic.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1614515A1E; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:01:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (handy@localhost) by lambic.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA19600; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:59:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:59:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Brian Handy To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-files: The truth is out there MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Apr 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> [4 people said "YES! Add g77!"] >I beg your pardon? You're adding g77 to the system because you know of >four people who would find it useful? Where's the logic in that? Well, statistically speaking, that's a bunch of "ayes" and no "noes". Lots of things happen via implicit acceptance. (I was one of the people who spoke up in favor of this after David mentioned this.) >If you do add it to the base system, make it optional. I don't care if >it defaults to on, as long as I have the option to turn it off. This doesn't seem unreasonable. (I also really like Chuck's idea of adding gcj in the same light.) Happy trails, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message