Problems with g++ (Was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies)

2006-09-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Christian Aichinger wrote: As Steve Langasek detailed in his d-d-a mail[1], unnecessary dependencies cause lots of problems, as they make transitions bigger then they need to be. Sorry for the noise. I wrote earlier to Christian Aichinger (and submitted a report

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:40:49PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: One thing I noticed is that there are a lot of problems (in your terminology) caused by unneeded dependencies on libgcc1 (/lib/libgcc_s.so.1). From my quick investigation, it appears that the C++ and Fortran compilers (g++,

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Christian, (Sorry if you get this twice, I don't know whether you subscribe to debian-devel.) Christian Aichinger wrote: As Steve Langasek detailed in his d-d-a mail[1], unnecessary dependencies cause lots of problems, as they make transitions bigger then they need to be. The root cause