On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:53 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
<phajdan.jr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 5/3/11 5:27 PM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
>> In the ebuild there is no mention of runtime dependency like gcc or glibc.
>
> See
> <http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html#implicit-system-dependency>
>
>> Why sys-devel/gcc don't have a library version without the actual compiler?
>
> This question may be a bit hard to understand, at least for me.
>
>

Other distros package libstdc++ separately from gcc. On Gentoo, the
one package (sys-devel/gcc) provides both.

Maybe we should add a new USE flag that will install just the libraries. (USE="justlibs")

Kfir