Stephen Shaw wrote:
2009/4/30 David Nielsen <gnomeuser(a)gmail.com>:
> pkgconfig files go in a separate -devel package
>
Not all of the packages have a .pc file. We had talked about this in
our group and decided to put them in the same rpm as these are all
library type files. So, in a way I would guess that the whole rpm is
really just a devel package.
What do you think?
The issue is keeping development files and runtime files separate.
Usually libraries are runtime dependencies and you don't want them
dragging in the dep chain of development packages on install.
If a package doesn't have a .pc file but only runtime libraries then you
wouldn't need a -devel subpackage.
-Toshio