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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.

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Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick
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