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

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> 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. :-(

I agree. What on earth is the advantage of not installing header files
with the libraries? Surely the savings of a few kilobytes of disk space,
when you're already installing hundreds of kilobytes of libraries, is
insignificant.

On my system, header files seem to add about 10% to the space requirements:

    stoic $ du -hs /usr/pkg/include /usr/pkg/lib
    68M     /usr/pkg/include
    643M    /usr/pkg/lib

cjs
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