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On 6/23/2011 8:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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>> It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional |
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>> (USE=-R) that falls squarely into the "if you aren't sure if you need it |
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>> then you probably don't" category. So for most users, no, you don't need |
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>> to build gcc with fortran. |
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> That's not the only one. Digikam has a hard depend on clapack, which |
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> requires virtual/blas and thus a Fortran compiler. |
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Hrm. I installed kde-meta and it didn't pull in Digikam. But |
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I don't remember turning it off (though I would have). I |
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have a completely unreasonable and unjustifiable dislike for |
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FORTRAN so I go out of my way to keep it off my system :) |
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