[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[Maxim Sobolev]

C'mon. Nothing in the base system requires fortran  - install the 
version you like from ports and enjoy the life. What's the problem?

-Maxim

marty fouts wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Jonathan Noack <noackjr at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
>> On 05/27/06 00:05, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> > On May 26, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Kip Macy wrote:
>> >> Irrelevant. The question is, as a percentage of FreeBSD users, how
>> >> many use fortran? A much larger percentage use perl and python, and
>> >> those are in ports.
>> >
>> > My gut feeling is that you just argued for moving the C compiler to
>> > ports, too :-(
>>
>> You're forgetting that the kernel and most of userland are written in C.
>>  The C compiler isn't going anywhere...
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Noack | noackjr at alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195
>>
> 
> I dunno. If you follow this to its logical conclusion, since most
> people don't compile anything, there's no reason for *any* compiler to
> be in the base system.
> 
> (removes tongue from cheek)
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