[csw-maintainers] About *-dev packages

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Tue Dec 13 07:21:43 -0500 2011:

Hi Dago,

> 1. Make the name of the development package CSW<bundle>-dev This was
>    it can be easily associated with the other packages from the
>    bundle

I like this although it might trigger a bunch of renames.  As those
are easy to handle now, I don't see it as a big deal.

> 2. *If* there is a development package for a bundle make an entry "i
>    develpkg" in the pkgmap so the file gets into
>    /var/sadm/pkg/<pkg>/develpkg to make it even more easy to get the
>    name of the development package.
> 
> pkgutil could aid it in this with a "always install devel packages
> on this machine" if any new packages are requested by looking this
> info up. Or "purge all development packages".

I definitely like this.  It would be akin to aptitude build-depends
foo! :)

Thanks
-Ben
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