pkg-config-lite

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Paul Bender 

> Making pkg-config dependent on anything will ensure that pkg-config is
> dropped over time. The inane idea that it is ok to make pkg-config
> depend on a package that uses pkg-config is sure to guarantee that
> distributions will not update pkg-config. I maintain a Linux
> distribution and I have no plans to upgrade pkg-config because of the
> the inane decision to create this dependency. Because of this
> decision, I expect that within five years pkg-config will no longer
> exist. Nobody maintaining a distribution wants this circular
> dependency. Therefore, we will end up dropping pkg-config.

Such a circular dependency is quite common in lower parts of the
toolchain, so people bootstrapping distributions have to deal with this
anyway.  For people not maintaining toolchains, it's not a problem.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are