-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: | If I understand correctly, all of the packages in x11-proto will only | install header files. Are these header files ever useful on their own | though? Would it make more sense to include the header files | in various library packages?
No, we follow what upstream does. This saves us from needing to bump headers when a library changes, bump a library when a header changes, and also has the benefit that the headers are just DEPENDs so you can uninstall them all after you finish compiling. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7893XVaO67S1rtsRAi9uAJ95DNAPqhA3Dhv9QJqY6RGklbYewACfbbLQ oDnkXPNFW1MWKkPozs2jAVU= =Q/tK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
