Package naming [was Re: [Sheflug] Problems installing GDK]

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> xyz-dev usually means the full source code to xyz; otherwise, you may only
> be getting a pre-compiled binary. Sometimes adding the header file counts as
> '-dev' too.

In debian, 'xxx-dev_*.deb's just contain the static libraries and header
files so that you can compile things, not any source at all.  I thought
that with rpms you got 'xxx.src.*.rpm' for package sources.

Bob


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