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 1Qa5q4-0000Rq-2U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:50:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DAAA1C12B; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:45:06 +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 DEA771C12B for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C62F112007 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:45:05 -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 CgAP92lHMJVS for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:45:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.4] (wombat.kutulu.org [192.168.69.4]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37F6112006 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:45:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E0486D1.20703@kutulu.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:45:05 -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> <20110624120304.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> In-Reply-To: <20110624120304.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e3eaf580d7fc6cf06ecf5ae2d5e7c1f7 On 6/24/2011 8:03 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Mike Edenfield [110623 18:34]: >> 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 > What seems strange then is that if everyone keeps telling Dale that he > most likely doesn't need cantor and R then why is R enabled in the > profile by default? It's not enabled in the profile, it's enabled in the ebuild: IUSE="debug ps +R" and likely for the same reason there's a scary warning. If you're installing cantor, because you plan to use it (and not because kde-meta is a bloat monster), you need one of the two backends to make it work. R is the preferred option there, so the cantor maintainers assume "if you want cantor, you probably want R", and the cascade begins. --Mike