Re: installation oddities

[Richard Kettlewell <rjk+news@sfere.greenend.org.uk>]

Bob Hunter writes:

>>> dpkg is written in c++ (surprise, surprise).
>> It's not.
> 
> ... when compiling dpkg, configure failed when testing g++. I have
> no g++ installed at all, and the configure stopped there at once.  I
> did not bother reading the code to verify.

dpkg is written in C, dselect in C++.  They are built together, hence
the build-time dependency on a C++ compiler and the package dependency
on C++ runtime libraries.  ISTR a mention of dselect being split into
a separate binary package, which would eliminate the latter.

ttfn/rjk