FC4 slimfast slimfest

[Elliot Lee]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Milmeister wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:58 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:18:10 -0500, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >  > I hope the fortran part of gcc4 has caught up [to do everything
> > >  > gcc3-f77 does].  I guess I should go back and try gcc4 again.
> > > 
> > > Which reminds me. Is fortran really used by enough people to justify
> > > its presence in -core ? (Even if so, does it really need to be in the
> > > default install?)
> > 
> > It's still used quite a bit in natural sciences (e.g. Physics,
> > Chemistry, etc), but if it's moved to extras, nobody will miss it,
> > since the admins will know where to find it. The question is -- can it
> > be successfully unmarried from the rest of gcc?
> 
> Doesn't octave require it to build?

octave is a personal favorite of mine (I use it as my "calculator" app on
Linux).

It really needs to move to Extras, though.
-- Elliot