Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:37:55 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904091036480.55462-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904082056190.19556-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Brian Handy wrote:
> 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.)
Geez, and I used to think it was only the commercial OSs that had a
problem with bloat and creeping featurisms ... :( Chuck's idea makes more
sense...how many programs does the average system run that needs a fortran
compiler? *raised eyebrow*
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