RFC: .pc meta package
Enrico Weigelt
weigelt at metux.de
Sat Jul 23 21:25:05 PDT 2011
* Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> schrieb:
> I don't think it's a particularly good idea, since it's easy for the
> .pc file to end up having wrong data for a given package. Also, the .pc
> file name is part of the API of the package, so it should be decided by
> upstream (glib.pc vs glib-2.0.pc).
Well, in those cases, the upstream doesnt take any decision,
so we'll have no competitors ;-o
> Are you seeing resistance to shipping the .pc files upstream or are
> upstreams just slow?
Actually, from my experience, they're either *really slow* or
simply don't care.
cu
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