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From: Fathi Boudra <fabo@debian•org>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom•com>,
	David Gibson <dwg@au1•ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [dtc] breaking out libfdt from dtc so other progs can use it
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:12:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803011012.36876.fabo@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802290930020.25557@vixen.sonytel.be>

> I think people are confusing source and binary packages.
>
> E.g. on Debian, the openssl source package is used to build 3 binary
> packages: openssl, libssl0.9.8, and libssl-dev. Hence to install
> applications that use libssl, you don't have to install all 3, just
> libssl0.9.8.

That make sense.
Just ask downstream (distros) to ship libfdt binaries packages.

cheers,

Fathi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-01  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-27 19:40 [dtc] breaking out libfdt from dtc so other progs can use it Jerone Young
2008-02-27 20:31 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-27 21:24   ` Jerone Young
2008-02-28  1:41 ` David Gibson
2008-02-28 16:30   ` Jerone Young
2008-02-28 18:59     ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-28 20:02       ` Jerone Young
2008-02-29  2:53         ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-02-29  8:35       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-29 14:09         ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-01  9:12         ` Fathi Boudra [this message]

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