MoiN On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:54:28PM +0200, Juho Östman wrote: > Why does dpkg use gcc to obtain the system architecture? I think the most obvios reason is that dpkg does not require gcc to be installed to work. There were more reasons discussed here some time ago, which I did not follow closely. Just look at the mailinglist archive. Ingo -- <PRE> _ ( ) ASCII Ribbon Campaign /~\ Against HTML Mail </PRE> ' `