> 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. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
