Debian/Ubuntu-style -dev ports

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> This got me thinking about more elegant ways to avoid the issue, in
> particular Debian/Ubuntu's approach of distinguishing "user" packages and
> "developer" packages. The former contain everything required to use the
> package, other than for development. For ffmpeg this would mean, for
> instance, the ffmpeg c.s. executables, and the runtime shared libraries
> (libavFoo.x.y.z.dylib and libavFoo.x.dylib). Headerfiles and the linker
> library (libavFoo.dylib) are provided by the corresponding -dev package.


The problem with this is that if a MacPorts user can't get something from a
prebuilt package, you have to force both the "user" and "developer" ports
to be installed because any dependents will necessarily be doing linking.

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