On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:55:08AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:26:41AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Realistically, are there any C++ apps on the planet that wouldn't choke > > > an i386 to death anyway? > > > groff wouldn't be *that* bad, I don't think ... > > It had to be pointed out to me that, choking or not, apt is also fairly > important to have on the system. :) So perhaps a sub-port consisting > of a static libstdc++ library, together with statically-linked versions > of groff and apt, would satisfy the needs of i386 users?
I haven't worked out an opinion on the general issue yet, but the other two packages in required/important/standard that depend on libstdc++, apart from g++-3.2 via libstdc++5, are dselect and python2.2. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
