FC4 slimfast slimfest

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:35:06PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:25:41 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> > > I've never once in my life ever used fortran or needed it to
> > > compile/run anything.  However, does it build from the same src.rpm?
> > > How would it be packaged in Extras if it does?
> >
> > count yourself extremely lucky.  Sadly its packaged as a sub-package
> > of gcc srpm, so it cant be easily handed off over the Core/Extras
> > barrier. And if the sub-package were simply not included the people
> > who need it, like me, will end up rebuilding the gcc srpm to renable
> > the gcc-f77 subpackage.
>
> That still doesn't justify it being always installed for every user
> by default IMO.

Every user doesn't get g77 by default. It is part of 'Development
Tools' group.

Satish