On Mon, 31 May 2004, Kent Emia wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 10:35, Christopher Stone wrote: > > devel packages are used mainly when you compile your own applications. > > Every once in a while you will find something that doesn't have an > > rpm available and you will need to compile the source code. So if for > > example you find some new apt utility that no one has made an rpm for > > and you want to compile it, you may find that it requires the > > apt-devel rpm installed in order to compile. In general though, you > > will probably never need apt-devel. > > so in general example if i downloaded a > > mplayer-xxxxx and so i don't need an mplayer-devel ... am i right? Exactly. If you never or rarely compile anything yourself you wont be needing any -devel packages. And if you start building stuff you'll notice the need for relevant -devel packages sooner than later :) - Panu -
