Re: [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

[Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nezmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:13:57PM +0100, Attila wrote:
> > At Samstag, 5. Dezember 2009 09:56 Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> >
> > > Isn't it against Arch philosophy to split packages it binary and header
> > > packages?
> > First the headers from the kernel package was even a reduced amount and if you 
> > look in the PKGBUILD only for the cases if you build some packages for yourself.
>  
> I agree with Hussam here.
>
> If Arch wants to be (disk)size-effective, We would end up with hundreds
> of Debian-like *-{header,dev} packages.

We're not going to do that, it just seemed insane to include this stuff 
in the kernel.

> I just don't think splitting header packages is practical with distributions
> that support a port-like system. I know the kernel might be an exception but 
> I still think the decision to split the headers is interesting and worth
> commenting on.

The kernel IS an exception here, we will not start splitting out -dev 
stuff everywhere. It is mostly done for making the PKGBUILD more readable.

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