Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev_at_gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 10:10:08 -0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:56 UTC

On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:35:01 -0700
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon_at_orthanc.ca> wrote:

> > About time to give it a boot.
> 
> If you have a useful argument to make, make it.  Otherwise quite  
> wasting our time.
> 
> --lyndon
 Simple: I do not want to drag libmpfr and libgmp dependencies into
system. That + sorry state of current g77 in base system is reason to
let properly maintained ports to cover users' needs for fortran
compiler.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev