Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> I suppose you got the idea by now ;-)  Do you need dev-lang/R?  If 
> not, then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R".  Do you need the 
> package(s) that this brings up?  If not, continue --depclean those 
> until you reach something that has no other dependencies; meaning you 
> reached the top level.  Do you need *that*?  If not, unmerge it, then 
> depclean everything (just "emerge -a --depclean".)
>
> This should get rid of all stuff you don't actually need/want.
>
>

Well, that leads back to KDE.  So, looks like it stays.


>>> [...]
>>> That is no solution. I highly doubt you need a Fortran compiler :-/ By
>>> adding more stuff to your make.conf as a work-around for problems like
>>> this, you add more and more stuff to your Gentoo install; stuff you
>>> actually have zero use for. By that logic, you could enable every
>>> possible USE flag that exists so that you always have everything, just
>>> in case. But then you should probably be using openSUSE or something 
>>> :-P
>>>
>> Well, it appeared to only affect gcc here. We all know I have to have
>> that.
>
> GCC is a compiler collection.  You usually only need gcc and g++. 
> Fortan, Objective-C, Objective-C++, ADA, Pascal, Java, whatever else 
> is usually something you don't install unless you know you need it.
>

But gcc is the one that got rebuilt when I changed the USE flag.  So, it 
needs it because the other package needs it and in the end, KDE needs 
all that stuff.  So, the flag is added and I guess it is needed by 
something I want to keep.  Sort of like my GUI and all.  ;-)

Funny thing is, it appears the dev changed it back so after the next 
sync, I can shorten my USE line by one flag.  Progress.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)