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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:25:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
Cc:        obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATTENTION PLEASE:  g77 in base system.
Message-ID:  <199904090425.VAA93304@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <xzp6776d24m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Apr 9, 1999 03:16:41 am"

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> writes:
> > I've only heard back from 4 folks about adding EGCS's g77 to the base
> > system -- all 4 said "yes".  Unless I get more feedback, I will add g77
> > to the base system this weekend.
> 
> 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?

Please add g77.  That's five.  Search the mail archive for the
last round of Fortran discussion.

> 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.

A knob would be fine, but you're saving yourself 100k or so of
disk space and 5 minutes during "make world".

-- 
Steve


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