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Am Sonntag, 12. Januar 2014, 08:53:47 schrieb Ryan Hill: |
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> fortran: |
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> Do we want to keep enabling fortran by default? The majority of users will |
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> never get the urge to install a fortran package, and the fortran eclass |
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> handles those that do. I think it should be treated as all the other |
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> optional languages and disabled by default, but I'd like to know if there |
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> are other opinions. |
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The problem with fortran is (was?) a bit that it creeps in in unexpected |
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places via scientific libraries (e.g. image processing). Not so far in the |
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past it was necessary to build media-gfx/digikam for example... |
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I don't like the long gcc build times either, but would recommend keeping it |
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enabled by default, for a simple reason: We do not have a clean way to depend |
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on it (gcc[fortran] dependencies are pointless because of slotting and gcc- |
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config), and an eclass can only output errors and ask for manual intervention. |
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While just about everywhere else we try to automatize as much as possible... |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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