On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 16:26, Martin Man wrote:
> 
> splitting into -devel is good IMHO, because
> 
> 1) users don't need gcc and header files and static libs
> 2) developers can always install them
> 3) it saves space, and yes, space is still important as it was before 
> even if we have bigger drives and more memory -> think Java vs. flash, 
> or Linux live distro on USB flash drive

So don't install the gcc package. There aren't static libs (although
I think we still have some lint libraries that are quite big), and
headers are generally small compared to the app itself.

Besides, I feel that if you want to customise at that level, asking
the package system to do the work for you is doing it wrong.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/



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