pkg-config-lite

[Paul Bender]

On 3/31/2012 2:16 AM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "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).

Yes, my wording was overly harsh. I apologize for that.