On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 20:09, Jason Chu wrote:
It seems having one GCC package actually follows Arch's philosophy better. Just like we don't separate Python and Python-tk. We choose the best options (in this case, languages). Another example where we choose one "big" package is with -dev libraries.
Python is slightly different, but you do have something of a point there.
The example of a "big" package being -dev was only recently and only because no one wanted to update a swath of -dev packages for xfce4.
Your other points are technical, which I have no knowledge on, so I will only comment on this. I was referring to including the development headers in packages. In most distros, there are things like "gtk2" and "gtk2-devel". We include both in one package. At least, I think you misunderstood. I'm pretty sure this has been going on long before XFCE4. Ben -- Now remember, we can't ALL sign with an X