tv@pobox.com said:
> This typically requires building all of the C and C++ backends without
> major hackery (more than just libiberty.a and xgcc -- be my guest and
> try it 8-). 

It wasn't that hard. Hopefully I didn't miss something serious.

> * Make gcc-c, gcc-c++, gcc-f77, gcc-java, gcc-ada, gcc-objc packages
> for each language.

I've done so, almost exactly. Still needs cleanups and testing on
systems different from i386/current.

> * Then, once all of the above packages are committed with CONFLICTS set to
>  "gcc-[0-9]*", change "gcc" to be just a meta-package of the above.

I'm not sure we need a meta pkg including all parts. No application
needs all at once.

best regards
Matthias