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@xxxxxxx> 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
