Ubuntu "*-dev" package equivalent for Arch?

B-Con · 2007-12-20 05:14:49

I'm just trying Arch for the first time, migrating from Ubuntu. I'm trying to set up as equivalent a system as I can, software-wise, from a list I kept of of key packages I installed on Ubuntu.

One thing Ubuntu does (for those unfamiliar with it) is the developers create a package with the compiled/configured binary, and sometimes they also create a development package to be used by other applications that rely on the original package. Ie, you might have "libgtk2.0" and "libgtk2.0-dev", which you usually install separately.

What's the equivalent of the Ubuntu "*-dev" packages on Arch?

brebs · 2007-12-20 05:25:08

They are built-in. Because Arch does not artificially separate the files. Compare Ubuntu file list to:

pacman -Ql gtk2 | grep include

B-Con · 2007-12-20 06:29:10

OK thanks. I guess Ubuntu separates them because the dev's think that its intended audience is less likely to care about them.

.:B:. · 2007-12-20 10:56:37

Ubuntu devs separate them because that's how Debian does it, and it would be a waste of time to reintegrate them again, and it would be messy to not do it for the packages they build themselves but keep the split out headers for the packages they inherit from Debian.

Debian splits them up for the reason you said though . Without Debian, Ubuntu wouldn't be where it is today. People tend to forget that.

B-Con · 2007-12-20 22:00:27

True. I was actually thinking about dropping a side-note in about how they are probably just following in Debian's suit there, but I have limited experience with Debian itself and didn't want to say that lest it be untrue and I appear a cretin. :-P I know how vital Debian is to Ubuntu, I'm just not very experienced with Debian itself and don't know how specifically they differ.

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#1 2007-12-20 05:14:49

Ubuntu "*-dev" package equivalent for Arch?

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Re: Ubuntu "*-dev" package equivalent for Arch?

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Re: Ubuntu "*-dev" package equivalent for Arch?

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Re: Ubuntu "*-dev" package equivalent for Arch?

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