pkg-config-lite

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> writes:

Hi,

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

While I disagree somewhat with the wording, we're also sticking to
pkg-config 0.25 (and are considering -lite) in Buildroot. Buildroot is a
source based distribution, so for us the glib dependency is also not
optimal because of the build time impact (glib is >> pkg-config).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard