Re: development packages from pkgsrc

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:37 AM, H Xu <xusubsc%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does pkgsrc provide any devlopment packages(including headers, link
> libraries, etc.) for python, sqlite, etc? When I want to build something
> depending on libraries other than the standard library, I found it I always
> need to download the source package from the official website.
>
> Any ideas?
>

pkgsrc, for the most part, doesn't split packages up into foo and
foo-dev like RHEL does.

Can you give an example of where a build has required you to download
the source manually?