Edd wrote: > Hi, > > Just thought I might mention a suggestion for your new package management for > indiana. > > I think -devel packages that you sometimes see on some linux systems are > un-neccessary. Just lump them in with the main package.
I disagree. End users don't care about -devel packages and don't want what's in 'em. > They are usually on a few KB and its a pain to trawl install media to get > them all installed when you find you dont have them. > I suggest a better approach is to make it easy to install all the -devel packages you need. apt-get has the "build-dep" option to do this. For example, to make sure you have everything installed to build the Orca screen reader, all you need to do is issue: % sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca If Indiana isn't going to use apt-get, then I'd hope that their equivalent technology would do something similar. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
