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On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:46:35 justin wrote: |
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> I wasn't aware that there is no hierarchy in the dependencies in an ebuild |
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> and portage will choose a solution w/o a USE change first. That is the |
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> reason why many of you saw that ifc should be installed, instead of gcc |
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> with USE=fortran. That was the point where I added it back to the profile |
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> as a default enabled USE. |
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So what happened to pre-release testing? |
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> Trying to avoid any fortran at all is stupid, |
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That's the sort of arrogance that gets developers a bad name. |
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> as already mentioned many math operations are faster if programmed in |
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> fortran. |
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Whether "many" operations are written in Fortran is immaterial. What matters |
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to me is whether any on my system are. If they aren't, I don't need a |
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Fortran compiler and I'd rather not waste system resources on building one. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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