On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >As for Shawn's point about headers, I'd rather just always install them, > >rather than conditionally install them. Non-developers won't notice, > >and minimizers can always filter out any headers. > > I disagree. There are multiple benefits that all help different groups > of people:
Letting users filter out headers is one thing, but having the system jump through hoops to detect whether you might need them is another. And doing that by default strikes me as asking for lots of pain. (hmm, GCC, Sun Studio, DTrace, ... installed? yes -> install headers; hmm, we didn't install headers, but now the user's installing GCC/... so we need to go install all those headers we hadn't installed?) Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
