files for configuration that are not needed to be installed?

[Allison Randal]

On 08/26/2010 05:31 AM, Gerd Pokorra wrote:
>
> I am not as safe as houses that the files are not really needed to be
> installed. May be any project or other software need them.
> I compiled rakudo-2010.08.1 on parrot-2.7.0 without that files and
> "mk_language_shell.pl" run without the files.
> Would it be okay to switch the entries or do somebody not agree with
> it? I will change the entries if I get no complains in the next four
> days.

These are not needed to run Parrot, but they are needed to build certain 
languages. That's why they're in the 'devel' package, because they don't 
need to be installed unless you're a language developer. (Unfortunately, 
the make targets changed a while back so that the default 'make install' 
installs everything, even all the developer tools.)

Allison