2008/1/19, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 18 января 2008 Egor Pasko wrote: > > On the 0x3CF day of Apache Harmony Gregory Shimansky wrote: > > > Egor Pasko said the following on 18.01.2008 17:47: > > > >> In the docs it should be written that if some header ... is not > > > >> present, it the package x11proto-xext-dev should be installed, > > > >> otherwise it may confuse people who are using distros that provide > > > >> this header in other package. > > > > > > > > Igor Stolyarov said in FC it is the same, Debian has the same. Why > > > > bother? gentoo? :) > > > > > > Well, as I've written, it doesn't exist on SuSE too. > > > > I suggest to put at most 2 columns: for rpm-based and for apt-based > > distros. Installing all packages is quick and easy, while > > checking/installing by header is not. > > Well. I think that there should be a note about Debian based distros > (since > apt as well as rpm are just package managers and may be used across > different > distributions). That should include Ubuntu, Kubuntu and other flavors of > Debian (unless they decide to split packages on their own accord). BTW are > you sure that this x11proto-xext-dev is not Ubuntu specific and is > actually > required on Debian too? > > Saying this, the instructions of every possible Linux distro in the world > are > going to be hard to write. Versions change, packages are split, merged > back > and renamed with different names, there is never going to be a perfect > instruction, especially considering the lag of the site and documentation > after the real state of things. > > I think the instruction should name the groups of packages by origin like > > X11 with all of its extensions and development packages > libpng with all of its development packages > libjpeg with all of its development packages > liblcms with all of its development packages > libxml2 with all of its development packages > > and so on. > > You and me would understand what it means. New developers would ask > questions > on dev list in any case, and this is not bad IMHO. > > -- > Gregory >
+1 -- Igor
