On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:52:35 CST David Engel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 03:07:02PM +0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > > libfoo-altdev depends on libfoog-dev > > I disagreed with this last one. The reason is that it prevents the > user from installing another "libfoog-dev" (e.g. libfoo2g-dev) without > also removing libfoo-altdev. [snip] > > 2) The manpages for the development package are also included only > > once in the distribution, in the libfoog package.
This means that a -altdev package doesn't include manpages and other support files and can be installed without supporting documentation. I understand your objection, but generally, if one has a libfoo1g and a libfoo2g, only one libfoo?g-dev is installed, and they both provide/conflict with a libfoog-dev virtual package, right ? Then we might have the -altdev depend on the libfoog-dev virtual package so that installing the -altdev package also installs any libfoog-dev package and the support documentation is there. I don't think people have use for only (libc5) -altdev packages without any (libc6) -dev package. But I might be wrong. Phil.
