--- Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au> ha scritto: > 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 :) > It is different, Fortran is a compiler...unlike python and java you shouldn't need the compiler once the executables are produced. > > - 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 :) > I think I use about 10-25% of the base system, and for that I only need the C compiler to rebuild the kernel, but with kld's that is becoming less necessary each day. Removing fortran (which I really use a lot) is in certain way a reminder that we should move more towards using the packaging system in the base too, and ideally depend less on a specific version of gcc. Actually I think the fortran removal from base is the way to go. Unfortunately the ports tree is not prepared for it, and I would expect breakage in the math, science and ports categories. Not good but it had to be fixed some day anyways. Pedro. Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.comReceived on Sat May 27 2006 - 20:32:16 UTC
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