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thank you so much for that deep dive into the history and issues involved. I hadn't considered that it's tricky to have multiple -dev headers floating around. You can have packages link to different versions as needed, but you don't wanna hard code version paths into source code. Sounds like a tricky problem to solve cleanly.

Thank you again for sharing your unique unsight. This is stuff that's really hard to find otherwise. I just wish all these details where in the package descriptions. It would be so incredibly helpful. Especially in -dev packages where the description isn't going to be seen by "casual" users anyway



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