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Re: Rethinking Qt headers (should the header packages be recombined?)



On Wednesday 26 February 2003 16:03, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:

> I have to agree with Ben on this one.  There are more negative aspects of
> breaking out these headers than positive.  I also think that when a user
> (note user, not developer) wants to build a Qt based app they would assume
> that installing the -dev package would be all they would need.  Makes
> sense. It's not the users job to try to figure header issues out.

Disagree... User's don't 'build' apps.. devleopers do, even if they might be 
beginning developers...  If it doens't compile using just -dev then it is a 
app that needs to be fixed, and they can help the debian movement by sorting 
this out :) Users barely handle apt-get :)

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