Bug#3073: xbase contains imake and xmkmf without their config files
Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > package: xbase
> > version: 3.12-9
> >
> > This package contains imake and xmkmf, but their config files are in
> > xdevel. I suspect that these programs should be moved into xdevel to be
> > with their config files. They are of no use outside development.
>
> Depends on what you call development. You might be building something
> you got off the net in /usr/local, which is not what I'd think of as
> development, but might need imake, right?.
Ah, but to build something you got off the net, you're also going to need
the header files, the libraries, etc.. Still not what you call development?
Seems we don't need need an xdevel package after all because everything
belongs in base. :-)
I can see your point that just compiling a program isn't true "development"
as such, but I think for the purposes of deciding what should go in which
package, anything that is used only during the creation of a new X binary
(whether that be from source you pulled off the net, or something you
"developed" yourself) belongs in xdevel. This means imake and xmkmf (if I
understand their usage completely) belong in xdevel and not xbase.
Warwick
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