"dev" ports (=/= "devel" ports!)

[Jan Stary]

> > Those are all files that are only required when using port "A"
> > as a dependency for *building* other software but not as a dependency
> > for running that dependent software.
> 
> The keyword here is "only". It is not unusual to install a library
> (and its header files, and its pkgconfig files, and its documentation)
> because you want to develop software using that library.
> Please don't make it needlessly complicated by requiring
> more than one port to be installed.

I might have misunderstood here, sorry.
Do you mean stuff like auto* to create the Makefiles
or groff to build the documentation, which are not
needed once it's done?

Would you please give an example of such software
that needs to be made into a separate -dev port?

	Jan