James Lee wrote on 06.10.2009 16:03: > Reasons not to split: > > + Many more packages to manage > > + No space saving when only runtimes used, which is in most cases. > > + It's a pain for the developer to know to install the -dev packages. > Not all packages naturally have dev parts and it's not possible to > tell if it's missing or never exists (oh great, lets have empty > packages where none is needed to keep the system symmetric and avoid > all confusion).
This reminds me of when i started using Debian. It was always the one -devel package that was missing. You get used to it somehow, just in our case one doesn't even know whether there is a a -devel package at all. Would going back to don't have devel splits at all be an option? Sebastian _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
