On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Todd Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: > * Mark Knecht <[email protected]> [110622 18:35]: >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Todd Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> > >> > No actually blas-reference fails to build unless gcc is built with the >> > fortran use flag enabled (since there's no fortran compiler available.) >> > >> > The deps pulling in blas-reference are in my previous mail. >> > >> > Todd >> >> If you have virtual/fortran installed then portage will pull in a >> different Fortran compiler. (ifc on my machine) >> >> - Mark > > Yes of course. Sorry for the imprecise statement. But the point is my > profile turns on R by default so just by emerging kde-meta I end up with > the GCC fortran compiler and packages that require a fortran compiler. > > And if the fortran use flag was turned off (either by changes on ~x86 or > if I turn it off myself) then I get build failures. > > Todd
Agreed 100%. It's very strange (to me) that kde-meta builds R at all. TTBOMK it's not even remotely a KDE project and of absolutely no value that I can see to the average KDE desktop user. I run R, mostly in a Windows VM because I prefer the GUI, but sometimes in Gentoo also.
