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
