Kevin Kofler wrote:
Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:There is a difference between compatible library packages and compatible development packages. Compatible libraries make long term sense. Compat development packages don't.By shipping libraries, even compat ones, without a -devel package, we'd be advantaging proprietary apps over Free ones. :-(
Change your terminology to 'pre-compiled' and 're-compiled' because it really doesn't relate to code being proprietary or not, only when it was compiled. And then you also see why the -devel doesn't matter.
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