Any chances to reduce number of gcc ports/packages which are installed as BINARY PACKAGES dependencies?

[Diane Bruce]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:32:11PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> >  Maybe, we should encourage ports, which is needed gcc, to use only one
> >  version? If many ports needs 4.8, maybe, we should bump "any" version to
> >  4.8 for gcc-less systems? And move all other versions to 4.8?
> 
> I would love to do that, in fact, I hope that at one point we can
> eventually get rid of USE_GCC=any.
> 
> What I can do for now, and have been planning to do for a few weeks,
> is https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192025 aka
> "Update default version of GCC (USE_GCC=yes, lang/gcc,...) to GCC 4.8".

Any chance we could have a script "gfortran" which by default
ran the default gcc from bsd.default-versions.mk and make.conf ?

..
> 
> Gerald
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