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

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:21:23 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<stephen@example.com> wrote:

> 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. :-(

Patrick Volkerding (Slackware maintainer) *does* agree with you
apparently. Install a library from a Slackware .tgz package supplied by
him and you get the headers as well. *THAT* is packaging done sensibly.

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G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

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