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On 05/09/2014 09:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:57:29 +0100 |
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> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I was wondering, is there a good reason we keep our own pkgconfig |
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>> files instead of communicating that to upstream and resolve that |
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>> properly? |
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> Yes, when your "instead of ..." is not an option. |
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Why not? If the package does not work out of the box then something is |
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broken upstream? If it works for Debian but not for us then maybe we do |
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something wrong? Otherwise, if having our own pc files (assuming there |
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is no abuse here and we touch reverse deps only when really necessary) |
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why is that a problem? |
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I fail to understand the problem here. |
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>> What other distributions do? Or are we a special case and |
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>> we need our own pc files? |
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> No, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509392#c23 which reads: |
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> "You do realize that out of five distros (Fedora, Debian, |
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> Slackware, SuSe, Mandriva) I checked five ship a .pc file?" by mabi. |
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I am not talking about Lua here. It's a more general question. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras |
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