On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:56:30 -0400 (EDT), Mike Burger wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > >> Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on > >> which the non-devel package depends. Packages that depend on the > >> kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well. > > > > It rather begs the question though: why does a package have a library > > that the package itself doesn't depend on? e.g. xine-lib-devel > > includes /usr/lib64/libxine.so but xine itself doesn't. Wierd. > > I'd wager that xine has libxine statically linked and/or compiled in. No, libxine.so is just a symlink pointing to the real and versioned library file in the xine-lib package. This symlink is needed only when building software -- it's the link that makes the -lxine linker command work. -- Fedora release 9.90 (Rawhide) - Linux 2.6.26-0.45.rc4.git2.fc10.i686 loadavg: 1.30 1.60 1.58 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
