From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E02sf-0007no-0c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:56:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j72JtqfY007986; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:55:52 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j72Js9Rc022217 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:54:10 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1E02qN-0001hF-GA for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:54:31 +0000 Message-ID: <42EFCF78.1070004@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:54:32 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050722) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans References: <42EE8C03.3040904@gentoo.org> <42EF0D9A.4070304@gentoo.org> <87ack0uove.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <87ack0uove.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 65bde488-1fd4-435b-bc49-c99805ee2704 X-Archives-Hash: a10969269862a72b92d458c43a721c5f -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: | If I understand correctly, all of the packages in x11-proto will only | install header files. Are these header files ever useful on their own | though? Would it make more sense to include the header files | in various library packages? No, we follow what upstream does. This saves us from needing to bump headers when a library changes, bump a library when a header changes, and also has the benefit that the headers are just DEPENDs so you can uninstall them all after you finish compiling. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7893XVaO67S1rtsRAi9uAJ95DNAPqhA3Dhv9QJqY6RGklbYewACfbbLQ oDnkXPNFW1MWKkPozs2jAVU= =Q/tK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list