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Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Mon Jun 05 2006, 11:03:57AM CDT] |
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> -fortran - Do we really need this outdated language as a default in gcc? |
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Although outdated, there are still a lot of applications that use it. |
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More importantly, there are a lot of well-tested numerical libraries |
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that exist in fortran that really aren't worth porting to another |
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language, so a lot of stuff in our tree still requires a fortran |
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compiler. (I don't have good statistics on exactly how much of the tree |
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does, however, so if somebody wants to compile some....) Until |
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use-based dependencies arrive, I think it's still required. |
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> -motif - is unmaintained in portage and rather outdated, does not look good. |
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> Should not be default for optional interfaces |
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I believe that flag is mainly there to reduce the "Hey, my xpdf package |
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lacks the xpdf binary" bugs. |
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Grant Goodyear |
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