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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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> 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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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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