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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:31:22 +0100
From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:

> It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional
> (USE=3D-R) that falls squarely into the "if you aren't sure if you need it
> then you probably don't" category. So for most users, no, you don't need
> to build gcc with fortran.

That's not the only one. Digikam has a hard depend on clapack, which
requires virtual/blas and thus a Fortran compiler.


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