using pkg-config for dynamic release packaging

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> schrieb:

> Fedora uses this patch for generating rpm Requires/Provides from .pc files.
> 
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/pkgconfig/devel/pkgconfig-0.15.0-reqprov.patch?view=markup

I really doubt that this will be of great use, since the dist 
buildsystem needs to know the deps, _before_ it can even attempt
to build the package (and so the .pc file we would query), to 
set up the build environment (sysroot image, etc).

It would be a totally different issue if there was a canonical
dependency declaration (eg. a file within the sourcetree),
which would also has to respect feature switches and target
specific deps, use globally canonical namespaces, etc, etc.

IOW: autopackage ;-p


cu
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