Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

On 12/17/2013 18:57, Andrew Wyatt wrote:

Yes, there are many missing -devel packages. It's possible that they didn't fit on the media though,

I've run into two of these myself: libedit and libgd. Both of these are living, useful libraries, without direct replacements.[*]

Clearly there are RPMs shipped in the distro that require these libraries. I guess Red Hat are saying that they don't intend that you develop your *own* software against these libraries.

[*] (libedit is API-compatible with readline, but most apps that use it do so in order to avoid the GPL. There are many alternatives to GD, but none are API-compatible.)