On 2009-09-14 18:21 , Jack Howarth wrote: > Yes, this is one thing I definitely miss from fink. Most packages providing > development libraries are either present as... > > foobar headers > foobar-bin binaries > foobar-shlibs shared libraries > > or > > foobar-dev headers > foobar binaries > foobar-shlibs shared libraries
The reason for this split would be that fink is also a binary distribution and therefore not everyone needs the headers. But such splits do not make sense with source distributions in my opinion, as you will always need headers to build dependents. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
