Thanks for the speedy reply (and all the work on the GTK packages). I see what you described is correct: the Gtk3 binaries don't depend on libstdc++; it is only the developer package which requires the standard c++ library. Looking at the dependencies, I think the actual problem for my situation is that this introduces a dependency on g++ (so I probably should have reported it thus instead).
As for a concrete situation, I run Debian on a (highly) portable, low power netbook in addition to my desktop system (I reported from my desktop, so that is where the uname is from, sorry). There is no big problem on my desktop with adding g++, etc. but my netbook is quite resource constrained (i.e. I think I have more storage on my Raspberry Pi). I don't use C++, just straight C, so I have had no need to install C++ until I looked at installing gtk-3-dev to get some sweet GUI. I don't think my system is so constrained I couldn't install g++, but it is constrained enough that I'd rather not if I don't really need it. I generally think that the Debian policy of avoiding embedded libraries is wise. It is a good idea not to have who knows how many copies of a library floating around / bloating a system, and PCRE, although small, seems to be the kind of library that could have some serious security implications. That said, your proposed solution of splitting libpcre3-dev into C and C++ parts sounds like a better solution to me. Thanks, Jamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
