[Portland] Project Portland, RuDI and the Generic desktop adapter

[Carl Worth]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:18:01 -0600, Billy Biggs wrote:
>   1. Libraries going missing.  We used to trust pkg-config, but
>      unfortunately it adds -lfoo for all foo, even if you don't use
>      anything from foo.  This caused us to have binaries linked to
>      liblinc and libpango-xft which weren't always available, even
>      though we never used those.

As of pkg-config version 0.18, pkg-config provide the ability for
packages to advertise Requires.private rather than Requires which
addresses this problem exactly.

What still needs to happen is for many applications to move things as
from Requires to Requires.private as appropriate in their .pc files.

-Carl
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