Nicolas Williams wrote: > 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.
From a user's perspective, they don't really care what hoops the system has to jump through. In fact, they expect the system to jump through hoops for them :-) > (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?) In other words, if I installed gcc, Sun Studio or DTrace, yes, I'd expect the system to figure out I want headers for my already installed packages to be installed. Again, why install headers if you don't have any software that needs them? -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
