Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

C'mon. Nothing in the base system requires fortran - install the version you like from ports and enjoy the life. What's the problem?

-Maxim

marty fouts wrote:
On 5/26/06, Jonathan Noack <noackjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 05/27/06 00:05, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On May 26, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Kip Macy wrote:
>> Irrelevant. The question is, as a percentage of FreeBSD users, how
>> many use fortran? A much larger percentage use perl and python, and
>> those are in ports.
>
> My gut feeling is that you just argued for moving the C compiler to
> ports, too :-(

You're forgetting that the kernel and most of userland are written in C.
The C compiler isn't going anywhere...

-Jonathan

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I dunno. If you follow this to its logical conclusion, since most
people don't compile anything, there's no reason for *any* compiler to
be in the base system.

(removes tongue from cheek)
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