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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:08:41
Message-Id: 503E9258.7020005@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency by "Michał Górny"
1 On 29/08/2012 15:02, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > I'd add it to @system because a lot of packages actually need to DEPEND
3 > on pkgconfig because they use libraries using .pc files. And the number
4 > is going to increase, hopefully.
5
6 And yet it shouldn't be part of system because it's not necessary to run
7 a system, let alone a POSIX system.
8
9 > Also, some people are probably going to try to get some pkgconf support
10 > directly into gcc, in form of '-something libfoo' to make it grab
11 > everything magically, I think.
12
13 You have a future as a comedian.
14
15 --
16 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
17 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>