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 1Qa5fH-0007N4-Uu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:39:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A24AC1C11D; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:35:56 +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 5C88A1C11D for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976D9112007 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:35:55 -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 WLa78v5BtCTQ for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:35:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.4] (wombat.kutulu.org [192.168.69.4]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1C9112006 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:35:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E0484AB.6090606@kutulu.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:35:55 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 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 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> <4E03C416.7000504@kutulu.org> <20110624013122.22fbbcbb@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110624013122.22fbbcbb@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9665039aac4881ce53de9d899f743acd On 6/23/2011 8:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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=-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. Hrm. I installed kde-meta and it didn't pull in Digikam. But I don't remember turning it off (though I would have). I have a completely unreasonable and unjustifiable dislike for FORTRAN so I go out of my way to keep it off my system :)