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From: Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:44:03
Message-Id: 20161218154348.1b715f74@amdahl.home.chead.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help! by Matt Turner
1 On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:55:43 -0800
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > > dev-lang/gnat-gcc
7 >
8 > Something I've wondered about since I used gnat-gcc for assignments as
9 > an undergrad -- why is gnat-gcc a separate package from gcc? Isn't the
10 > Ada frontend just part of gcc? Why not just a gcc[ada] USE flag?
11 >
12
13 I agree. Anyone from toolchain@, if someone (perhaps myself) were to
14 submit a pull request adding an ada useflag to sys-devel/gcc, would it
15 be accepted (assuming the patch were sensible and clean)?
16 --
17 Christopher Head