[CentOS-devel] Circular build dependencies in RHCS packages

Mon Aug 1 15:11:28 UTC 2005
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:18:21PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
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>>>>I've already tried and failed to convince RedHat that their pattern of
>>>>having xxx-devel packages require xxx is wrong.
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>>>Often they actually do, though.
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>>Would you care to explain, or give an example?
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>Try to build an SDL program with SDL-devel installed but not SDL.
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xxx packages frequently contain the libraries and the xxx-devel packages 
the C headers and what not.

Pretty much pointless in installing the C headers without installing the 
libraries also.