On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:13:57PM +0100, Attila wrote:
At Samstag, 5. Dezember 2009 09:56 Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
Isn't it against Arch philosophy to split packages it binary and header packages?
First the headers from the kernel package was even a reduced amount and if you look in the PKGBUILD only for the cases if you build some packages for yourself.
I agree with Hussam here. If Arch wants to be (disk)size-effective, We would end up with hundreds of Debian-like *-{header,dev} packages. The developers are free to do whatever they want of course. Supporting debug packages for example is a feature the developers want to provide in the future and nothing is wrong with that. I just don't think splitting header packages is practical with distributions that support a port-like system. I know the kernel might be an exception but I still think the decision to split the headers is interesting and worth commenting on.