Bob Hunter writes: >>> dpkg is written in c++ (surprise, surprise). >> It's not. > > ... when compiling dpkg, configure failed when testing g++. I have > no g++ installed at all, and the configure stopped there at once. I > did not bother reading the code to verify.
dpkg is written in C, dselect in C++. They are built together, hence the build-time dependency on a C++ compiler and the package dependency on C++ runtime libraries. ISTR a mention of dselect being split into a separate binary package, which would eliminate the latter. ttfn/rjk
