On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:

> 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
> to build gcc with fortran.

That's not the only one. Digikam has a hard depend on clapack, which
requires virtual/blas and thus a Fortran compiler.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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with inanimate objects.

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