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

[Baptiste Daroussin]

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".
> 
> >  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.

Won't it be possible to make gcj a slave port?
That is said with no idea of gcc's internal way of building :)

regards,
Bapt
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