[haiku-development] Package Management - devel or not to devel?
- From: Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 21:57:58 -0500
Working through the SDL recipe, I just noticed that we seem to be going down
the path of -devel packages.
I didn't remember seeing this info out there, so I wanted to raise the topic.
Why are we going with seperate -devel packages?
I've moved to a distribution that doesn't use -devel package seperation, and
realize now that I *don't* miss it at all. Is there really a reason to split
software apart into devel and non-devel packages anymore? I used to go through
endless pain trying to compile stuff on RPM based distro's because I didn't
have the right combination of -devel packages. They also make the .recipe's a
lot more complex.
Using SDL (that i'm working on a recipe for at the moment) as an example, the
-devel will split apart:
* Headers
* A few static .a libraries
In this age of 1TB hard disks, does it matter?
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Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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