Re: To package or not to package (Was: [tlug] Well now I'm hosed - Dapper/Edgy died)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart writes:

 > My reasons for using a source-based distro(*) are pretty much identical
 > to yours but with another aspect that seems to have been overlooked:
 > the dreaded "-devel package" syndrome.

I've always been of the opinion that a library distributed without the
headers is incomplete and broken.  Practically nobody agrees, it
seems, and definitely not the people who run the distros. :-(