[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josip Rodin) wrote on 15.02.03 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:58:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > The only time I see where deviating from that rule would be justified is > > when two -dev packages Depend: on some other packages that cannot be made > > non-conflicting, so that avoiding the conflict at the -dev level would not > > actually make it possible to install them at the same time. Of course, by > > the exact same reasoning as for the -dev packages themselves, those > > situations should be avoided whenever possible. > > IME headers usually don't change location with SONAME changes, so modifying > them in packages has additional disadvantages which should be obvious. That still seems *far* less of a problem than the current situation. (And note that you could easily hide that difference, if you wanted to, with alternatives.) I strongly believe that being unable to install apache-dev and db4.1-dev on the same machine is inacceptable. It is also quite obviously an unnecessary problem - I gather (from looking at autoconf code) other distributions have the db stuff under /usr/include/db3 etc., or if you compile it locally you can use a different prefix and there will be absolutely *no* conflict. I'm all for convenience (which is all you get from not changing locations), but not at the expense of making other things impossible. MfG Kai
