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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:03:29AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> > Ok, the dummy spells are in, so gurus can start adding dependencies on
> > g++, objc, g77 and gcj.
> 
> A (hopefully) quick question: Are we to have every (well, not directly, but 
> at
> least indirectly) c++ application now depend on g++? Is the only compiler in
> basesystem (and hence needing no dependency upon it) gcc?
 
Yes, basesystem needs only gcc, everything else should at least
indirectly depend on g++. Basically every user will install g++, since
groff is written in c++ and man needs groff, but the dependency will
also make sure g++ is updated before any c++ dependent spells, which is
a nice addition imo.

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