On 22/06/11 09:55, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:15:35 +0200 > justin <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 21/06/11 16:18, Matt Turner wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:17 AM, justin <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> HI, >>>> >>>> with the addition of the fortran-2.eclass, it is possible to >>>> remove the USE=fortran from the default profiles. Any objections? >>>> >>>> justin >>> >>> Nope, I actually suggested this back in December, and no one >>> bothered to respond. >>> >>> Sounds good to me, >>> Matt >>> >> >> Removing fortran and adding an dependency on virtual/fortran lets >> portage select dev-lang/ifc as the fortran compiler of choice. > > That's because portage doesn't suggest USE changes for one-of deps, and > just falls back to first USE-clean option. >
In my tests it does. if there only gcc[-fortra] present, it asks me to change the USE. >> I reverted it back temporarily, so everything should be fine now >> again. > > As said on IRC, if you really intend to do a thing like that, you > should re-enable fortfran on the gcc package by default. > I reverted to where we came from. Every further proceeding will be coordinated with the toolchain guys. Generally I would like to remove USE=fortran from default, as nearly solely science packages are written in fortran and I doubt that nearly half of the user base do science. I will come up with a plan. jusitn
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