FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

[Kris Kennaway]

Daniel Rucci wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> No, it's not convenient.  There is a large maintenance cost for 
>> keeping the fortran compiler in the base system for little gain 
>> (nothing in FreeBSD uses it), and it is also only of use to a small 
>> subset of FreeBSD users, so this is a perfect situation where moving 
>> it to the ports collection made sense.
> Does this mean i can take WITHOUT_FORTRAN out of my /etc/src.conf? If 
> thats the case, src.conf(5) should be updated.

Probably, can you contact ru@ or file a PR?

Kris