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 1QZsrM-0003Wz-ID for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:58:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D34D71C15D; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BBF1C15D for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AD2112007; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dWw5OABispwk; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.100.84] (173.221.47.98.nw.nuvox.net [173.221.47.98]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62FBF112006; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E03C416.7000504@kutulu.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: Peter Humphrey Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <4E020F32.1040209@gmail.com> <201106232322.11570.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201106232322.11570.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 53e912dbf1856f3b7271118c6ddb5eba On 6/23/2011 6:22 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:50:10 Dale wrote: > >> If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put the thing back tho. Some KDE >> packages depend on things that seem to need it enabled. > > Looks like it's only packages that are pulled in by kdeedu-meta. Do you need > all those? > It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional (USE=-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. Dale's just playing it safe, I guess, after the admittedly scary "I'm all broken and stuff!" warning message cantor throws at you. --Mike