[indiana-discuss] -devel packages.

[Rich Burridge]

Edd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just thought I might mention a suggestion for your new package management for indiana.
>
> I think -devel packages that you sometimes see on some linux systems are un-neccessary. Just lump them in with the main package. 

I disagree. End users don't care about -devel packages and don't want
what's in 'em.

> They are usually on a few KB and its a pain to trawl install media to get them all installed when you find you dont have them.
>   

I suggest a better approach is to make it easy to install all the -devel
packages you need. apt-get has the "build-dep" option to do this.

For example, to make sure you have everything installed to build the
Orca screen reader, all you need to do is issue:

% sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca

If Indiana isn't going to use apt-get, then I'd hope that their equivalent
technology would do something similar.