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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 01/01/13 23:01, Jeff Horelick wrote: |
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>> I would like to propose a switch of the order of DEPENDs in |
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>> virtual/pkgconfig to make dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config] the default |
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>> choice for new installations. |
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>> |
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>> dev-util/pkgconf has less external dependencies, is lighter and is |
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>> faster than dev-util/pkgconfig while being now 100% compatible |
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>> This switch has already been made by Funtoo, Alpine Linux and FreeBSD |
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>> with very little in the way of ill effects recently from any of those |
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>> 3 camps. |
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>> There are no more pending bugs against pkgconf (and Diego did a |
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>> tinderbox run with it a while back) in Gentoo. |
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>> pkgconf also has a upstream that is more than happy to work with us |
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>> specifically (or anyone for that matter) and I (a Gentoo developer) am |
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>> one of the upstream developers. |
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>> If this is approved, I will make the change in ~2 weeks. I'm not |
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>> planning on making a news item because users should notice little |
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>> difference. |
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>> Thanks |
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>> Jeff |
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>> |
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> i'd say never. there is no benefit in switching. pkg-config is the default |
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> implementation from freedesktop.org. |
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> pkg-config is now lighter and has less dependencies than before as the |
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> switch from bundled glib1 to glib2 allowed dropping of the popt library. |
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> and since pkgconf upstream doesn't properly follow pkg-config upstream git |
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> and do necessary changes, like for bug 445796 it would mean pkg-config |
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> related bugs would have to be reported to double upstream and thus, not be |
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> maintainable |
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> last I checked prefix didn't have issues with the pkg-config bootstrap |
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> either. there is no circular deps either. |
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> lose-lose situation for the switch, so over my commit access ;-) |
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I agree with you. The original implementation should be our default. |
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People interested in get rid of the glib dependency should be able to |
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replace pkg-config with pkgconf manually. No need to make an |
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"unofficial" implementation the default. |
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Regards, |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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