>Well, if it A touches 0.0001% of FreeBSD users, POLA isn't really >relevant. I fail to name at least 1 person who seriously relies on >Fortran in the base FreeBSD among at least 2,000 FreeBSD users I know. ... who can't figure out how to install a compiler from ports. Yes, Fortran does no longer belong in the base system, and quite frankly, it never did. I suspect the only reason it is there in the first place was that it saved somebody at Berkeley the trouble of keeping track of another release/tape/etc. Kill it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat May 27 2006 - 05:44:25 UTC
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