On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:53 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan...@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.