they used to be one but got separated because of the rule "userspace programs should not include kernel headers". Perhaps the i2c (i.e. kernel) version shouldn't be installed under /usr/local/... Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Why is it that there are two different i2c-dev.h files, one in i2c and > one in lm_sensors2? When installing i2c and lm_sensors2 in order, the > version from lm_sensors2 will of course overwrite the one from i2c. This > causes trouble to people using e.g. checkinstall to build packages from > sources (because i2c and lm_sensors packages then conflict on that > file). > > It seems to me that the file that comes with i2c is meant for "internal" > use only and should not be "exported" to any user-space include > directory (and could maybe even be integrated into i2c-dev.c). Am I > right? > > Thanks. >
