surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on
> which the non-devel package depends.  Packages that depend on the
> kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well.

It rather begs the question though: why does a package have a library
that the package itself doesn't depend on? e.g. xine-lib-devel
includes /usr/lib64/libxine.so but xine itself doesn't. Wierd.

poc