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David R. Morrison wrote:
| I would argue, though, that the smooth operation of fink demands that we | tag packages containing headers with BuildDependsOnly as well. As always, | the issue is what happens when you upgrade. If the program gets updated, | with new headers, then unless you can guarantee that every existing | package which has used these headers will continue to compile with the | new version (without modification) you are in trouble during a transition | period. Some packages will need one version to compile, and some will | need another. So we'll want to use Conflicts/Replaces to allow the | packages to replace each other, but that mechanism doesn't work if anything | depends on the package in question. | | Perhaps I'm missing something here, so I'd appreciate hearing some | discussion on the issue.
I agree that anything that's got headers for development in it should be BuildDependsOnly. As I understand it, there are some packages that use headers at runtime, but, IMHO, the headers should be duplicated in /sw/share as data in that particular case.
- -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/
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