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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dtc] breaking out libfdt from dtc so other progs can use it
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:35:48 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:30:44 -0600
> > Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > If it where broken out of dtc it would be easier to pickup and pull
> > > fixes from it. Even package it so programs can easily build it
> > > standalone.
> > 
> > That's akin to saying libcrypto should be broken out to be completely
> > standalone from openssl.  That doesn't make sense either.
> 
> Thanks, your openssl example triggered me posting this reply ;-)
> 
> 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.
> 
> But this doesn't mean libssl is separate from openssl source-wise: both are
> build from the same source package.
> 
> So the single source package dtc could be packaged as 2 binary packages: dtc
> and libfdt.

Yes, that's certainly possible for the various distros.  For Fedora
we'd have to get an exception for a static library, or convert it to a
shared one.  Other distros might not have that restriction.

josh