[csw-maintainers] Handling of devel package splits

[Sebastian Kayser]

James Lee wrote on 06.10.2009 16:03:
> Reasons not to split:
> 
> + Many more packages to manage
> 
> + No space saving when only runtimes used, which is in most cases.
> 
> + It's a pain for the developer to know to install the -dev packages.
>   Not all packages naturally have dev parts and it's not possible to
>   tell if it's missing or never exists (oh great, lets have empty
>   packages where none is needed to keep the system symmetric and avoid
>   all confusion).

This reminds me of when i started using Debian. It was always the one
-devel package that was missing. You get used to it somehow, just in our
case one doesn't even know whether there is a a -devel package at all.

Would going back to don't have devel splits at all be an option?

Sebastian