surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

[Mike Burger]

> 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.


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