[aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
Hello! I maintain the xen package in AUR, and I recently got a merge request on my private repo to split the libs off into a split package in order to make building packages for things like ocaml a little easier.   Previously, packages depended on a now outdated xenstore package. I have a va

Re: [aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Morten Linderud via aur-general
On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 04:09:06AM -0800, Sam Mulvey via aur-general wrote: > Hello! > > I maintain the xen package in AUR, and I recently got a merge request on my > private repo to split the libs off into a split package in order to make > building packages for things like ocaml a little easier.

Re: [aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
On 2/6/22 04:46, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote: Arch doesn't split off libraries and development headers into seperate packages and this is a feature. There are few exceptions to this but generally I don't think there is anything written about this. I understand this is not something

Re: [aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Uwe Koloska via aur-general
Am 06.02.22 um 13:59 schrieb Sam Mulvey via aur-general: On 2/6/22 04:46, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote: Arch doesn't split off libraries and development headers into seperate packages and this is a feature. There are few exceptions to this but generally I don't think there is anything

Re: [aur-general] request to make a -libs package

2022-02-06 Thread Sam Mulvey via aur-general
On 2/6/22 05:51, Uwe Koloska via aur-general wrote: But wasn't the request about splitting off the library part from a bigger package that contains all about xen? So that there is a xen-lib split-package and the rest, so that everyone providing services for xen, could be build with only the