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On 5 October 2010 23:38, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> And for Distros, it doesnt make sense to try to support anything imaginable. |
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Not breaking things that already work would be a decent compromise. |
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> I'm now working in embedded area (where static linking is quite common) |
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> for about 10yrs, and pkg-config has proven quite well here. (packages |
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> that dont provide .pc-descriptor yet, simply have to be fixed to do |
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> so ;-p). Libtool, on the other hand, always had been a nightmare. |
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What about things that don't use pkg-config? If you say "we don't |
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support that, modify it to use pkg-config", does that mean you're |
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willing to make Gentoo incompatible with Linux in general? (That |
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question isn't just about .la files, it applies to any change versus |
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upstream that affects interfaces between components.) |
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Just to reiterate, I'm not trying to block anything here. I'm just |
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asking for a small override so people with use-cases you (in general, |
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not a specific person) haven't thought of can be happy. It doesn't |
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have to be officially supported or anything. Is that really so |
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unreasonable? |
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