Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:04:44PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>
>>benjo (sid)[126]:~% ls -l src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 kmccarty kmccarty 1300680 2006-01-11 11:58
>>src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb
>>
>>but I guess even 11 * (1.3 MB
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:04:44PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> benjo (sid)[126]:~% ls -l src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 kmccarty kmccarty 1300680 2006-01-11 11:58
> src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb
>
> but I guess even 11 * (1.3 MB) isn't so much compared to
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"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
>
>> It's not clear to me that splitting out the headers is actually a good
>> thing (it's very annoying for autobuilders since the corresponding -dev
>> package won't be installable
Roger Leigh wrote:
> My own view is that, at least for the common case, static libraries
> don't really serve a useful purpose today; they are rarely used, and
> needlessly bloat our -dev packages. Wherever possible, we should be
> providing shared libraries instead.
>
> Apart from a few special
Brian Nelson wrote:
> Get:1 http://rubeus sid/main libqt3-headers 3:3.3.5-3 [364kB]
> Fetched 364kB in 1s (226kB/s)
>
> I wouldn't call 364kB a lot of saved archive space, and you'd be
> hard-pressed to find a package with more headers than Qt.
I'm actually working on unofficial packages of Gean
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
>
>> It's not clear to me that splitting out the headers is actually a good
>> thing (it's very annoying for autobuilders since the corresponding -dev
>> package won't be installable until the new version has been autobuilt),
>>
Brian Nelson wrote:
> It's not clear to me that splitting out the headers is actually a good
> thing (it's very annoying for autobuilders since the corresponding -dev
> package won't be installable until the new version has been autobuilt),
> so I certainly don't think policy should endorse it.
I
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could Policy be amended slightly to explicitly permit library source
> packages to create a -headers package containing include files?
>
> I am thinking that something like the following could be added between
> the existing first and second paragra
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Hi,
Could Policy be amended slightly to explicitly permit library source
packages to create a -headers package containing include files?
I am thinking that something like the following could
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