Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++
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 [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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