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