Cernlib is available in current Debian (and also in EPEL 6). I don't know why it's not in anything else under the Fedora banner, and wonder what nasty non-stand

Cernlib is available in current Debian (and also in EPEL 6). I don't know why it's not in anything else under the Fedora banner, and wonder what nasty non-standard stuff CERNLIB does. I don't remember ever having to look at more than bits of it. I've heard an anecdote of HEP analysis code that was written by a team in C++ and wasn't ready for impending data collection on LHC. Someone apparently rescued the situation by turning up with a working Fortran system he'd written on his own. I don't know details other than which university group the report originated from; I'd be interested to know more about it.