From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 9 6:37:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat192.236.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.192.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0EC151E1; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 06:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA10678; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:35:47 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:35:43 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Joe Abley Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. In-Reply-To: <19990409131824.A52442@clear.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Joe Abley wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 03:16:41AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "David O'Brien" 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? > > > > 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. > > Oh good lord, not again. I have to agree here...I personally know noone that actually uses Fortran...having it as an option to turn off would be nice...one less thing to compile on a buildworld... I personally liked the whole ports concept... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message