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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> I agree here. If you don't want packages to be pulled in because of header |
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> files, you need support for that (perhaps in the form of subpackages, or |
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> a useflag). But IF the header files of a package are installed one should |
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> be able to assume that they keep on working. Even after buildtime-only |
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> dependencies have been removed. |
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I agree too |
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> In the case of embedded it is clear that what in binary distributions is |
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> part of the development package (.la files, static libraries, header |
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> files) is not desired at all. To break dependencies to only strip away |
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> some of the headers seems to me a half solution that breaks a lot and |
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> doesn't solve the problem either. |
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> Paul |
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Btw embedded has already different way to archive the same result (ok, |
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removing headers and static libs after isn't really the cleanest |
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solution but works fine) |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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