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#7
Originally Posted by rcolistete View Post
I've tried to package R-base(-devel) .rpm package, but it seems to need Fortran compiler, which is not available on Mer/Sailfish.

Fortran is optional dependency for some packages (NumPy), and obligatory for others (SciPy, etc).
That's the problem I ran into as well, when trying to package R-base. I'd love to see SciPy too, so it's a bit of a bummer.

I don't know much about Fortran, though. Is it solvable by simply packaging gcc-fortran or does gcc need to be rebuilt altogether?