New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/32403#issuecomment-896159376 Comment: > What exactly would happen if we don't have ngspice depend on libngspice? Basically that someone who installed ngspice locally to use the libraries in their own projects would no longer be able to run them. That doesn't matter for most cases, since those people will usually have `ngspice-devel` installed as well.