On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:44 -0500, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 20:35 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > > >> If so, I'd recommend that we *not* install any header files or > > >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig files. Instead we should only use these files > > >> during our build process but not ship them. Does this make sense? > > >> We might want to install any libraries to a more private location > > >> than to /usr/lib, perhaps /usr/lib/gnome-private or > > >> /usr/lib/gnome-notification. > > > > > > Yes, I agree. > > > > Then before these spec files go into our build, can the spec files > > be updated so we build in this way? > > What you're suggesting is simply that we don't integrate the -devel > package into Solaris. > I disagree with that, though: > 1) it will be required for rebuilding parts of our product > 2) even if we don't encourage using these interfaces, if a developer > is interested in trying them, why make it more difficult? > > Laca >
Yeah, I agree with Laca. I think we can ship the header files and .pc files and I don't think this will do us much harm. We just mark them as consolidation private in ARC case. This will make us life easier and other developers happy. Harry
