[Bug 427481] Review Request: documentation-devel - Documentation tool chain

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Summary: Review Request: documentation-devel - Documentation tool chain


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427481





------- Additional Comments From mhideo at redhat.com  2008-01-11 05:29 EST -------
(In reply to comment #35)
> Even if packages are used for development, they cannot end with "-devel". It is
> called gcc and not gcc-devel for example. Besides they are numerous occasions
> where a package that ends with "-devel" is excluded. A few examples
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/8/FinalTreeTesting
> 
> "Make sure default install doesn't include -devel packages"
> 
> Look at the default kickstart files that are used to generate the GNOME and KDE
> live images. They automatically exclude *-devel. In short any package that ends
> with -devel is assumed to contain development files (headers et all) and not
> development tools in various places throughout Fedora and making an exception
> just for this package is unwieldy. You just have to call it something else. 

Thank you Rahul, 

Excellent read and I understand that now. It is okay not to include this in the
default install. That being the case, is it okay to keep the name -devel?

Cheers,
Mike


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