Arch Linux D news digest

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On Monday, 26 August 2013 at 10:52:23 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
> Usually the actual binary has the fully qualified version 
> number, and libphobos2.so would be included/created by the 
> devel package.

Yes, that does seem to be the case with other packages, I am 
simply reluctant to make any steps further from upstream until I 
have carefully studied that domain - and shared library 
deployment is not something I am very familiar with. It is number 
one topic on my TODO list.

> Also Archlinux usually doesn't have devel packages, the 
> headers, libraries and documentation are included in the 
> regular package.

It was a subject to hot 30min long debate on clode #archlinux-tu 
channel, not only my personal decision :) For normal packages 
difference between dependency environment and development 
environment is not that important - but for compiled languages it 
does matter. Pulling in all D development stack for a single 
application written in D is quite inconvenient for an end user.

Done similarly in gcc - stdlib headers are part of gcc package, 
but libstdc++ has its own.

`-devel` packages are rare on Arch, but they do exist.