Re: tlug: PJE

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > I think what happened is that Redhat started the practice, and it seems
> > that all the 3rd parties packaging libs as RPMs are doing it the same
> > way. 
> 
> I'm going to steal a march on Stephen here.
> 
> Just because RedHat does it doesn't make it right.  If you install the
> shared library, you should have the headers installed at the same time.
> It's sort of pointless to only have them available if you install the
> static library (which most people will never use).

That's correct, but it isn't/wasn't just Redhat that was doing it.

What about people who don't want to do *any* development - then you bloat
their systems with unneeded header files.  The header files (and
incidentally the static libs as well, where applicable), are in
(library)-devel-xxx-xx.rpm packages, which I believe is where they belong.
The main library package is just the shared lib for apps.

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