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: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:51:41AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > Should Debian further support the i386 target, or make (at least i486) > > > the default for code generation? Asking because I'm unsure how to > > > provide the libstdc++5 package. > > 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? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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