On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:30:44 -0600
Jerone Young [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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.

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