Re: tlug: PJE

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > the libfoo-devel package would contain the static (.a) library and the
> > .so link (or not, and let ldconfig make it), for compiling dynamic
> > executables.  The header files would be installed with the -devel
> > package, as they're only needed when compiling, and you can't compile
> > without the .a or .so file anyway, so they belong together. 
> 
> I'm appalled.
> 
> Let's say that I'm Joe User.  I've had this TurboLinux thingie installed
> in my computer for about eight months.  I'm taking a few programming
> courses at the local community college, and I want to try out a few of the
> example programs from my textbook on my home computer.
> 

well, I admit that in this case it might be nice to be able to save some
space.  However, 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... so when I started doing TL, I figured I'd do it
the same way - didn't really consider the implications that you're
bringing up.

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