Re: The *.so files

torsdagen den 7 november 2002 09.02 skrev Nuutti Kotivuori:
> Eric Gillespie wrote:
> > That said, let me state that i abhor this practice. When a user
> > on such a system installs package 'foo' they later discover they
> > have only random chunks of package 'foo', not all of it. That's
> > a disservice both to the users and the authors of the software.
> >
> > I can't tell you how many lists i'm on where someone complains
> > they can't compile something and it turns out they didn't have
> > the -dev package installed.
> >
> > Please don't perpetuate this lunacy.
>
> Well here I must say that - respect the policy of your distribution.
>
> It may very well be that in your distribution of choice, -dev or
> -devel packages are rare or work suboptimally, in which case you
> obviously do not want to make them.
>
> But for example in the case of Debian, it is absolute lunacy _not_ to
> do it. Separating -dev and separating libraries from the programs
> (libsvn0 vs. subversion) is the way of the distribution and it works
> very very well.

Well said Nuutti!

I didn't want to participate in this debate, but your reply was the best!

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