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
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