Naming of a .pc file: package.pc vs package-version.pc

[Rex Dieter]

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Rex Dieter 
> 
> | Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | 
> | > Not having co-installability means you might need to uninstall and
> | > install packages when you build different pieces of software.  I don't
> | > really consider that a problem. 
> | 
> | I consider it a problem.  non co-installability is not friendly at all... 
> | much preferable to have things "just work".
> 
> I prefer to have my computers do work by automatically installing and
> uninstalling packages rather than having to do manual work on all
> reverse dependencies each time a package bumps its API.  You appear to
> prefer the opposite.  (Which is fine, but it comes down to a matter of
> preference and what kind of work you would like to do.)

I was simply responding to the "you might need to uninstall and install 
packages when you build different pieces of software" comment.

My point: you either have full co-installability (of both runtime and 
development environment) or you don't.  Doing it half-way, ie. runtime 
co-install ok but developer environment not, is just unacceptable in 
this day and age (imo, and all that).

-- Rex