Packaging questions

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Apr 1 18:00:06 UTC 2005


Quentin Spencer wrote:
> I'm working on an RPM for GLPK 
...
> There are two binaries that allow a command line interface to the 
> library, which would be basically the only thing included, and the rest 
> would be in the devel package. The other option is the Debian approach 
> of putting it all in one package with no devel package. Is there a 
> preferred way to do this?

Personally, I prefer the former approach, so that developer packages can 
always be easily identified by -devel

-- Rex




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