.h files in non-devel package?

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Tue Nov 28 05:48:35 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 21:07 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Thus Gérard is right, -devel subpackage is not needed.
> 
> Why not call the main package -devel and forget the whole issue?

In and of itself, it is *only* a development package, similar to the GNU
toolchain (gcc/binutils/etc). Hence, (as I see it) there is no need for
the -devel naming since it does not have a corresponding runtime-only
component.
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