[oe] [RFC] Fix udev pulling in libvolume-id-dev

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 15-01-09 08:41, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> On (15/01/09 07:56), Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15-01-09 07:14, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>
>>>> libvolume-id-dev does not provide the actual .so library, but it
>>>> contains a
>>>> symlink in /usr/lib, which points to /lib/libvolume.so.0 (the host one!)
>>>> instead of ../../lib/ one...
>>>
>>> That's the intended behaviours, since installing the packages will have
>>> it point to ${libdir}/libvolume.so.0 on your device. I'm not sure if we
>>> want to patch every package to use relative symlinks.
>>
>> We would use -dev packages on staged area normally to compile other apps
>> depending on a given packge if we do not fix the symlink I think it will
>> try to link to wrong library.
>
> We don't use the -dev packages to populate staging :) I keep trying to
> convince Richard that we should use them, but he keeps coming up with good
> reasons not to do so :)

Hmm then why do we generate them ?. We do not need these packages on
target unless we switch to
native development on target.

>
> regards,
>
> Koen
>
>
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