On 1/9/13 11:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > The libperl-dev package, as constituted, doesn't make any sense: it's > got the symlink which people need, and a very large static (.a) library > that most people don't need. Even worse, you can't tell without close > inspection which of those files is actually used by a package that > requires libperl-dev, and that is something that's important to know.
The expectation is that if you want to link against libfoo, you install libfoo-dev, and after that you can uninstall it. What's wrong with that? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
