On 09/03/2013 04:59 PM, Isak Andersson wrote:
I agree with not having -devel packages. I haven't ever had a problem with headers taking up too much space or whatever. In Archlinux you simply install a package and you get the dev stuff too (if it exists). Makes things very easy to use and less frustrating. Still though, I can see some nice things about having a separate -devel package, But I don't think the positives outweigh the positives of keeping just one package.
Maybe someone can give some details on the negative use case that makes devel packages an "endless pain" and causes "untold hours of frustration". I can't relate at all. All I have to do on Linux (openSUSE) is a "zypper install foo-devel" to get foo's devel package (and foo itself, if it hadn't been installed before). I don't recall ever having experienced any pain or frustration doing that.
CU, Ingo PS: Please don't top-post.
