Am Sonntag, 12. Januar 2014, 08:53:47 schrieb Ryan Hill: > fortran: > Do we want to keep enabling fortran by default? The majority of users will > never get the urge to install a fortran package, and the fortran eclass > handles those that do. I think it should be treated as all the other > optional languages and disabled by default, but I'd like to know if there > are other opinions.
The problem with fortran is (was?) a bit that it creeps in in unexpected places via scientific libraries (e.g. image processing). Not so far in the past it was necessary to build media-gfx/digikam for example... I don't like the long gcc build times either, but would recommend keeping it enabled by default, for a simple reason: We do not have a clean way to depend on it (gcc[fortran] dependencies are pointless because of slotting and gcc- config), and an eclass can only output errors and ask for manual intervention. While just about everywhere else we try to automatize as much as possible... -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/
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