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

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 06:35 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>
>>> I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If not,
>>> then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the package(s)
>>> that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those until you reach
>>> something that has no other dependencies; meaning you reached the top
>>> level. Do you need *that*? If not, unmerge it, then depclean
>>> everything (just "emerge -a --depclean".)
>>>
>>> This should get rid of all stuff you don't actually need/want.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, that leads back to KDE. So, looks like it stays.
>
> And KDE wants Fortran because you have that USE flag enabled in
> make.conf :-D
>
>

Actually, I didn't have it in there until the update this thread 
references back too.  It was there by default but it was removed by a 
dev and portage puked.  So, maybe I need to do -fortran and see what 
happens.


>>>> Well, it appeared to only affect gcc here. We all know I have to have
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> GCC is a compiler collection. You usually only need gcc and g++.
>>> Fortan, Objective-C, Objective-C++, ADA, Pascal, Java, whatever else
>>> is usually something you don't install unless you know you need it.
>>
>> But gcc is the one that got rebuilt when I changed the USE flag. So, it
>> needs it because the other package needs it and in the end, KDE needs
>> all that stuff. So, the flag is added and I guess it is needed by
>> something I want to keep. Sort of like my GUI and all. ;-)
>
> I'm on KDE too, and it doesn't need it.  Probably because my make.conf
> explicitly says "-fortran" in it.
>

Mine never had fortran in it at all.  I still don't really know what 
fortran is.

Dale

:-)  :-)