devel packages with only one .pc file

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Tue Sep 5 13:25:21 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:19 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mar 5 septembre 2006 12:43, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> >> Perhaps in the case of mono, where the main package has no difference
> >> between the runtime and the development files (one in the same) then
> >> the .pc file can stay in the main package.  I'm OK with that.
> >
> > So, can we change the packaging guidelines to say this? (Otherwise I'll
> > be flooded with more bug reports.)
> 
> Even if a language does not distinguish between runtime and build files,
> you may still have to pull stuff used only for building (compiler, tools
> for %check, i18n, etc)

We don't require gcc or binutils in every package that includes a .pc
file, do we?

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