MultilibTricks

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue May 6 12:46:45 UTC 2008


On Tue, 06 May 2008 07:24:40 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> 
> > Indeed, in my experience the entire POINT of a -libs subpackage is that
> > it doesn't pull in the whole base package.  If it does, why are you
> > bothering to create a separate libs subpackage?  So the review guidelines
> > are indisputably broken here.
> 
> -libs, even if Require'ing the base pkg, helps multilib-wise.

If -libs requires base pkg, there's no need to split the two.

And it cannot help multilib-wise, because the -devel => -libs => base pkg
chain is still intact.

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