Re: Dependencies of libraries libc5-libc6 libraries
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> My understanding was that -dev and -altdev packages are conflicting ones.
> Why not included all man pages and other documentation in both
> of these packages to avoid creating additional ones?
Because your understanding is incorrect. The -altdev packages live in
/usr/<arch>-linuxlibc1/include to provide a libc5 compilation
environment. It is definatly useful to have both -dev and -altdev
installed at the same time, people building libc5 and libc6 packages need
them.
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