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From: heroxbd@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 12:11:16
Message-Id: 86obq6g4xn.fsf@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives by Mike Frysinger
1 Hi Mike,
2
3 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> writes:
4 > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs
5 > pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee.
6
7 > any comments ?
8
9 I would vote for it!
10
11 I feel ill to bootstrap glib and pkg-config. It feels worse to call for
12 a equal foot as gcc/binutils/glibc.
13
14 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk%2B.devel.general/21523
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16 pkg-config's functionality is too simple to be involved with this chaos.
17
18 Looking forward to it.
19
20 Yours,
21 Benda