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On 11/29/2012 03:56 PM, justin wrote: |
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> On 29/11/12 14:16, hasufell wrote: |
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>> |
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>> again, even if there are corner cases which cannot be dealt with |
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>> in a different way... |
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>> |
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>> having an eclass function like the mentioned one is bad, cause |
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>> it suggests that this is a way to fix things. It's not. |
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>> Application developers running gentoo might think "oh great, |
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>> there is a pkgconfig file for this, so I can use it in my |
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>> Makefile". Then a Fedora packager comes across this package and |
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>> realizes a compile failure until he notices the build system is |
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>> calling for a pkgconfig file that cannot be found anywhere. So he |
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>> contacts this developer and asks which distro he is using. |
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> So why not making our lives easier by having a pkg-config option? |
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Did you read what you quoted? Are you saying cross distro interfaces |
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for accessing libraries in build systems are ok to break? |
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Not only are people using foo.pc to compile a package on gentoo, but |
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also when writing a build system for "bar" which might link against "foo". |
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So having largely unused .pc files is the best case, the worst is |
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causing random breakage/annoyance for other distros without even |
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knowing, cause yeah... for us it works. |
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