* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?
@ 2011-06-25 13:58 99% ` Peter Humphrey
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From: Peter Humphrey @ 2011-06-25 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
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