[fetchmail]Re: SSL authentication problems with Gmail

Matthias Andree matthias.andree@gmx.de
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:22:22 +0100


"Jakob Hirsch" <jh@plonk.de> writes:

> Sebastian Tennant wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by the -dev package. Having read the
>
> so much for the highly praised debian package system... </rant>
> The tools seem to be in openssl, the libs in libssl0.9.7 and the header
> files in libssl-dev. I'm sure the naming follows a sane concept...

You're criticizing the policy, how people are naming packages, which has
little to do with apt which does a pretty good job. Splitting off -dev
packages is OK for end user systems that only use pre-built packages,
but it becomes a nuisance if users mean to install things manually.

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Matthias Andree