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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: vapier@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:09:49
Message-Id: 20120430210720.38f72104@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it
5 > runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee.
6 >
7 > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to
8 > enable a lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as
9 > such, i'd like to introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for
10 > selection of simpler (but compatible) implementations.
11 >
12 > we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but
13 > there is also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf". they should be
14 > compatible with the canonical pkg-config. they aren't yet in the
15 > tree, but will be once we agree on this topic.
16 >
17 > any comments ?
18
19 Maybe if pkgconf proves really good we could finally add pkg-config dep
20 to @system...
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>