[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 27 May 2006 13:31, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> - Will we need a package with the shared libraries that come with gfortran?
> many packages depend on blas/atlas and other libraries that need fortran
> but a run dependency on the compiler package would be excessive IMHO.

Why?
This is no different to building, say, pygame.. Yes it needs Python, wow, what 
a suprise :)

> - Perhaps we could remove of the C compiler too? not everyone builds
> kernels/ports and the gfortran compiler package happens to include a good C
> compiler ;-).

Fortran isn't used for the base system, C & C++ are.
(Yes I saw the smiley :)
	
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