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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:54:15
Message-Id: 2041668.8aWOlI8Y2M@nazgul
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:30:04 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
2 > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote:
3 > > Maybe we have something different then. I don't have
4 > > blas-reference on here anymore either. My point was, disabling
5 > > fortran to remove it only lead to other stuff being required.
6 > > I think there is more on here now than there was before. So,
7 > > removing fortran to get rid of bloat didn't help any because it
8 > > just required a different set of bloat.
9 >
10 > Maybe it's time to make a backup, then remove all USE flags from
11 > make.conf and package.use, set your profile to
12 > default/linux/<arch>/10.0/desktop/kde and rebuild. Alan and Neil's
13 > idea of a set of the meta-packages you want sounds good to me too.
14 >
15 > Then you'll really have a clean system.
16
17 You will have whatever system the profile maintainer thinks the
18 average user should have, bloated to whatever degree said maintainer
19 thinks is a good idea.
20
21 No USE flags set does not mean no options set, it means default. And
22 default sets plenty flags ON
23
24 > I may follow suit - I built this system with kde-meta for
25 > simplicity, but of course it now has a lot of stuff I don't want,
26 > including Fortran. I tried rebuilding with -fortran as I said a few
27 > minutes ago, but portage wanted ifc instead.
28
29 kde-meta gives you all the stuff that's useful on the average system,
30 plus all of accessibility, kdebindings, kdeedu, games, the sdk, toys
31 and maybe even webdev.
32
33 I can't think of the kind of user that truly does actually need all of
34 that.
35
36
37 --
38 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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