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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 06/22/2011 06:35 PM, Dale wrote:
> 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.

And KDE wants Fortran because you have that USE flag enabled in 
make.conf :-D


>>> 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. ;-)

I'm on KDE too, and it doesn't need it.  Probably because my make.conf 
explicitly says "-fortran" in it.