On Saturday 27 May 2006 13:31, pfgshield-freebsd_at_yahoo.com wrote: > - Will we need a package with the shared libraries that come with gfortran? > many packages depend on blas/atlas and other libraries that need fortran > but a run dependency on the compiler package would be excessive IMHO. Why? This is no different to building, say, pygame.. Yes it needs Python, wow, what a suprise :) > - Perhaps we could remove of the C compiler too? not everyone builds > kernels/ports and the gfortran compiler package happens to include a good C > compiler ;-). Fortran isn't used for the base system, C & C++ are. (Yes I saw the smiley :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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