[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

Alexander Kabaev kabaev at gmail.com
Sat May 27 07:10:28 PDT 2006


On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:35:01 -0700
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:

> > About time to give it a boot.
> 
> If you have a useful argument to make, make it.  Otherwise quite  
> wasting our time.
> 
> --lyndon
 Simple: I do not want to drag libmpfr and libgmp dependencies into
system. That + sorry state of current g77 in base system is reason to
let properly maintained ports to cover users' needs for fortran
compiler.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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