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re: API/ABI rank of headers in /usr/include/isofs/cd9660



David Holland writes:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 08:00:56AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>  > thanks for looking at this.  we've gotten better since early
>  > days with these sorts of issues, but there are still a lot of
>  > headers that are installed for no good reason but no one has
>  > had the chance/motivation to clean them up yet.
> 
> It's not that so much as cleaning it all up properly requires cvs
> rename, which unfortunately fails to exist. Otherwise I'd have done it
> years ago.

i don't see why that matters in the vast majority of cases that
are just like this one -- headers that were never useful for
userland were installed because of history (the original scripts
were find ... -name \*.h, with some filters, IIRC), not because
we need to shuffle their contents around to make it so.  all we
have to do is, like this case, simply not install them.

many of the headers in usr/include/dev are like this, as well.

rename might be useful for other stuff, but not really this.


.mrg.


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