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

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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".

>  Or build binary packages WITHOUT java by default!? Does anybody uses gcj
>  FOR REAL when we have native openjdk7 and openjdk8?!

There is good news, and there is bad news.  The bad news is that 
print/pdftk actually relies on the Java functionality in the GCC ports 
to build.  The good news is that it seems to be the only such port.

Mathieu, is there a way you can help?  I'd be happy to turn off Java
by default (but leave it in).

On top of these two, the really nice improvement is going to be when
we can support the creation of several packages out of one port -- at
that point we'd just break out a small gcc-runtime package.

Gerald