Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

David R. Morrison wrote:

> Yes, g77 is in fact one of the ones I've tagged.  Something like g77 can be
> used in two ways, as I see it:  it might be used "under the hood" by Fink,
> in order to compile something else.  Or it might be used by a working
> scientist who is writing his own code and wants to compile it.
> 
> Now, in the latter case, the user will want to have g77 installed.  But
> will there need to be any other fink packages that depend on g77?  I'm
> not sure I see the harm of the BuildDependsOnly flag in this circumstance.

Right now I count at least 7 Fink packages that have a Depends: g77. Of 
these, I know for sure that modulef and scilab need g77 for some of 
their runtime activities. Others like pgplot offer services that are 
only useful when a fortran compiler is installed.

-- 
Martin