On 2016/07/09 15:47, Thomas Frohwein wrote:
> > On Friday, July 8, 2016 1:10 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> 
> > wrote:
> 
> > > Could we just get rid of gfortran? It seems that nothing in ports is 
> > > using it..
> > 
> 
> Some R packages require gfortran to be built. I managed to install gfortran a 
> few weeks ago by manually removing the gcc file that was colliding. However, 
> the R package (I think it was knitr) required a newer version of gfortran, so 
> I had to make do without that package.

The newer version of gfortran is in the g95 package, the executable is called 
egfortran.

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