FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

[Daniel Rucci]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> No, it's not convenient.  There is a large maintenance cost for 
> keeping the fortran compiler in the base system for little gain 
> (nothing in FreeBSD uses it), and it is also only of use to a small 
> subset of FreeBSD users, so this is a perfect situation where moving 
> it to the ports collection made sense.
Does this mean i can take WITHOUT_FORTRAN out of my /etc/src.conf? If 
thats the case, src.conf(5) should be updated.

Dan