Why exactly isn't libstdc++ a separate package anyway?

We already have glibc as a separate package, so why the difference?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson <nvinson234@gmail.com> wrote:
> That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc
> should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be
> 100% correct).

gcc provides libstdc++.so.6, which is a necessary runtime component on
most systems.