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Re: distinguishing between applications and libraries
From: |
Jakob L. Kreuze |
Subject: |
Re: distinguishing between applications and libraries |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:24:58 -0400 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
> A good reason would be that the package *cannot* be used for anything
> else (e.g. when it’s a custom variant of a library that would
> otherwise be bundled but we decided to build it separately).
Ah, that's good to know for something else I'm packaging. :)
> We hid “gcc” because users would install it instead of “gcc-toolchain”
> and be surprised that it didn’t work.
>
> I would not hide a package just because it is a less popular
> dependency of some more popular tool.
Noted, thanks!
Regards,
Jakob
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