From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 9 6:40: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat192.236.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.192.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32BD151EA; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 06:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA10682; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:37:55 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:37:55 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Brian Handy Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Brian Handy wrote: > On 9 Apr 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > >> [4 people said "YES! Add g77!"] > > >I beg your pardon? You're adding g77 to the system because you know of > >four people who would find it useful? Where's the logic in that? > > Well, statistically speaking, that's a bunch of "ayes" and no "noes". > Lots of things happen via implicit acceptance. (I was one of the people > who spoke up in favor of this after David mentioned this.) > > >If you do add it to the base system, make it optional. I don't care if > >it defaults to on, as long as I have the option to turn it off. > > This doesn't seem unreasonable. (I also really like Chuck's idea of > adding gcj in the same light.) Geez, and I used to think it was only the commercial OSs that had a problem with bloat and creeping featurisms ... :( Chuck's idea makes more sense...how many programs does the average system run that needs a fortran compiler? *raised eyebrow* Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message