this is only cosmetic but I find it easier to have several optional packages than a big one for exemple libjava is optional, we should be able to compile it without recompile everything and more without having to redownload everything too same apply to libiberty : this lib can be found in binutils, and is installed by this package, but gcc component fail to build (if we do the ./configure into gcc dir) if ../libiberty/liberty.a isn't present we can do the same remarks for the c++ lib and most of subtree subpackages doing this will ease to understand why crosscompile fail (at this time I found that libjava don't take the right headers, but that in order to have him take the right header I have to compile it differently than the rest of the package...) I think that big package was the attribute of old fashioned projects and then that all lib provided into gcc should now be provided as separate packages.... because this is cleaner and that we'll have a better view of what's going on best regards and thank you for providing such quality tool
Actually libiberty is officially part of GCC and maintained by GCC and not bintuils. And this is not going to happen as GCC is one whole project and you cannot mix versions. Now libjava might change but not for a while.