Guessing it's legacy cruft. Seems like for deprecated projects, there should be just a "final release" port with patches added here and there for compatibility; "devel" is really in my opinion for actively in-development projects. That's what I do with qt4-mac, which amazingly still mostly builds on most MacOS X / macOS systems. My $0.02 worth ... - MLD
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017, at 08:05 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > The speec port has no maintainer so I am asking here. > Why do we have both 'speex' and 'speex-devel'? > They consist of exactly the same files. > > Similarly for speexDSP and speexDSP-devel. > > Xiph.org itself has deprecated Speex in 2013.