Missing libg2c.so.0 ?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting John E Hein <jhein at timing.com> (from Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:28:41 -0600):

> I forgot about the compat-* rpms in fc4 (gone in fc5, fyi).
>
> But I don't think we should put compat-* rpms in the linux base port.
> Depending on old compat libs is not very "basic".
>
> If compat libs are needed, they should probably go in a separate port
> or ports.
>
> And perhaps that port should named with "-compat-" to emphasize that
> it contains less (or not at all) actively supported packages and for
> easier searches.

Your proposal is good. But we can't follow it in every case. For  
example we already have at least one (AFAIR) compat RPM in the linux  
base port. It would break some commercial stuff if we don't provide  
it, and it's more convenient to have the common compat libs there. The  
fortran stuff isn't that common (at least in the linux part of our  
ports collection), so having a separate port for it makes sense to me.

Bye,
Alexander.

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