Re: conflicting -dev packages
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:58:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> The only time I see where deviating from that rule would be justified is
> when two -dev packages Depend: on some other packages that cannot be made
> non-conflicting, so that avoiding the conflict at the -dev level would not
> actually make it possible to install them at the same time. Of course, by
> the exact same reasoning as for the -dev packages themselves, those
> situations should be avoided whenever possible.
IME headers usually don't change location with SONAME changes, so modifying
them in packages has additional disadvantages which should be obvious.
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