From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QaTPc-0002PU-EY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:00:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D28A1C010; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C18E1C010 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631ADDECBD for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:58:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fLHTe4M7cRMM for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:58:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388E5DECB2 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:58:57 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:58:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <4E05CEDC.6060006@gmail.com> <4E05D8AB.10403@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4E05D8AB.10403@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106251458.56472.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f0ddd502292b28ee3ba1e01bddfacc61 On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:46:35 justin wrote: > I wasn't aware that there is no hierarchy in the dependencies in an ebuild > and portage will choose a solution w/o a USE change first. That is the > reason why many of you saw that ifc should be installed, instead of gcc > with USE=fortran. That was the point where I added it back to the profile > as a default enabled USE. So what happened to pre-release testing? > Trying to avoid any fortran at all is stupid, That's the sort of arrogance that gets developers a bad name. > as already mentioned many math operations are faster if programmed in > fortran. Whether "many" operations are written in Fortran is immaterial. What matters to me is whether any on my system are. If they aren't, I don't need a Fortran compiler and I'd rather not waste system resources on building one. -- Rgds Peter