Re: [dev] devel packages

2009-09-22 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 09/22/09 07:19, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote: Linux distributions come with additional packages for software engineers. A package 'kernel' is the one for runtime while '-devel' and '-headers' are for engineers and/or users to make small changes to the existing files. E.g.

Re: [dev] devel packages

2009-09-22 Thread tora - Takamichi Akiyama
Stephan Bergmann wrote: IMO a package X-devel only makes sense if the base package X contains something that has an API for clients, and those clients typically need some additional files to interact with X through that API (C headers, link libraries, etc.). The only parts of OOo that would

[dev] devel packages

2009-09-21 Thread tora - Takamichi Akiyama
Hi, Linux distributions come with additional packages for software engineers. A package 'kernel' is the one for runtime while '-devel' and '-headers' are for engineers and/or users to make small changes to the existing files. E.g. kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8