Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote:
>
>
>> Maybe we have something different then.  I don't have blas-reference on
>> here anymore either.  My point was, disabling fortran to remove it only
>> lead to other stuff being required.  I think there is more on here now
>> than there was before.  So, removing fortran to get rid of bloat didn't
>> help any because it just required a different set of bloat.
>>
> Maybe it's time to make a backup, then remove all USE flags from make.conf
> and package.use, set your profile to default/linux/<arch>/10.0/desktop/kde
> and rebuild. Alan and Neil's idea of a set of the meta-packages you want
> sounds good to me too.
>
> Then you'll really have a clean system.
>
> I may follow suit - I built this system with kde-meta for simplicity, but of
> course it now has a lot of stuff I don't want, including Fortran. I tried
> rebuilding with -fortran as I said a few minutes ago, but portage wanted ifc
> instead.
>
>

Yep.  On my machine, it pulled in about a dozen or so new packages to 
replace R and fortran being disabled on gcc.  I'm not sure I made my 
system any leaner or cleaner.  I actually may have done the opposite.

Dale

:-)  :-)