Hello, On 3/30/06, Nicholas Breen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:02:25PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > > some example package in devel: > > automake autoconf libtool binutils cvs ddd eclipse gcc g++ make > > True, but it also contains things like: > apache-dev atlas-*-dev blacs-*-dev scalapack-*-dev > > Most of those seemed to be more akin to the gromacs situation: > development packages that are only relevant to one particular piece of > software, rather than the more general-purpose libraries represented in > libdevel. > > (Not that there aren't some quirks... It's certainly odd that fftw-dev > is in devel, but fftw3-dev is in libdevel.) > > > libdevel: > > > > Packages in the 'libdevel' section contain files required for building > > programs that use libraries in the 'libs' section. You don't need > > packages from this section unless you want to compile software > > yourself. > > But gromacs does not contain any packages in the 'libs' section. > > I should also add that the ftpmasters are the ones that moved > gromacs-dev to 'devel' (I'd originally suggested it go in 'science' with > everything else) -- and since they maintain the overrides file, I can't > change the section myself. >
anyway, I am not insist on this bug. you can fell free to close this bug. -- LI Daobing
