I think my only concern with this is (g)fortran.  The C/C++ compiler situation 
seems pretty stable, but doesn’t the fortran problem still exist?  I do not use 
any package managers on my systems, so home-brew and the like  aren’t useful to 
me.

> On Sep 23, 2021, at 15:17 , Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32532 proposes to remove these packages as 
> not needed, and a huge time sink for everyone involved.
> 
> Rationale: nowadays every platform that Sage supports has said tools (or 
> their equivalents - e.g. clang/clang++ in case of macOS and FreeBSD) 
> available, if not outright as a system package, but surely with a very 
> minimal effort.
> 
> There is no need to carry this baggage forward.
> Moreover, it seems that Sage  is the only Python library/platform around 
> which (potentially) vendors gcc/g++/gfortran. 
> 
> 
> 
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