Fabio Valentini wrote:
> - Installing rust-*-devel packages on your local system (i.e. outside
> of ephemeral build environments) is not supported.
> - The "rust-*-devel" packages are build system implementation details,
> if you want to say it like that.
> - They are not shipped to users and are not useful for Rust developers.
> - They are *only* intended to be installed in temporary chroots (like
> those set up by mock).

I don't know enough about Rust to understand how the perfectly normal
usecase of installing libraries as RPM packages has been made so
problematic. I'll just state my strong opinion that packages that
aren't meant for software development should not have "-devel" in their
names.

Björn Persson

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