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Tilghman Lesher tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com
Fri May 2 12:13:50 MST 2003


On Friday 02 May 2003 01:45 pm, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:33, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> >
> > If you installed from source, this wouldn't be a problem, dammit.
> >  Why must RedHat/Mandrake/etc. make the newbie's life harder? 
> > And yes, that's a rhetorical question.
>
> Not that it matters much, but my favorite distro Debian would be
> lumped into that last comment. I don't want the headers to
> libraries that I will never compile against. My workstation already
> has 1210 packages, most of which I don't need headers laying around
> crufting up the place.

1.  The headers are miniscule and take up an insignificant amount of
space compared to the libraries.
2.  Disk space is cheap.
3.  It would save newbies (and those who love them) a ton of stress.

-Tilghman




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