On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, 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. All that indicates to me is that there is a bug in the SDL-devel package. I haven't tried to build an SDL program, since I don't think it's necessary for the sake of argument - you can tell us what will happen if I were to try. Perhaps the problem is that SDL-devel does not include the libSDL shared library. IMO, shared libraries should be included in both xxx and xxx-devel packages. AIUI, rpm can handle that adequately. --- Charlie