From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 17 05:02:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA23161 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 05:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA23154 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 05:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA07279; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:03:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199812171303.IAA07279@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:21:04 PST." <50335.913857664@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:03:11 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jkh@zippy.cdrom.com said: :- most number crunching weenies don't want to take time out to figure :- out how to install the stupid thing, they just want to get their work :- done. So you argument is that even though they don't have any problem installing their favorite graphics package or game or TeX of whatever from a package, installing a fortran compiler from a package will totally baffle them? Seems weak to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message