Re: let's remove fortran from my system

2003-08-10 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Dan Jacobson: > # apt-cache show pdl > Description: The perl data language. Perl extensions for numerics. > looks threatening to the system. Ok, better quit while I'm ahead. You can likely do without it. It's used mainly for very numerically intensive things... I believe the gimp-p

let's remove fortran from my system

2003-08-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
I never use fortran, so # apt-cache show libg2c0 Description: Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77 applications # apt-get --purge remove libg2c0 The following packages will be REMOVED: atlas2-3dnow* libg2c0* pdl* r-base* r-base-core* r-base-html* r-base-latex* After unpacking 56.1MB di

Re: let's remove fortran from my system

2003-08-09 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: > Description: The perl data language. Perl extensions for numerics. looks > threatening to the system. Ok, better quit while I'm ahead. If you had anything installed that depended on pdl apt would be offering to remove it. If removing pdl was threatening to your system apt