[gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

[Jeff Horelick]

I would like to propose a switch of the order of DEPENDs in
virtual/pkgconfig to make dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config] the default
choice for new installations.

dev-util/pkgconf has less external dependencies, is lighter and is
faster than dev-util/pkgconfig while being now 100% compatible

This switch has already been made by Funtoo, Alpine Linux and FreeBSD
with very little in the way of ill effects recently from any of those
3 camps.

There are no more pending bugs against pkgconf (and Diego did a
tinderbox run with it a while back) in Gentoo.

pkgconf also has a upstream that is more than happy to work with us
specifically (or anyone for that matter) and I (a Gentoo developer) am
one of the upstream developers.

If this is approved, I will make the change in ~2 weeks. I'm not
planning on making a news item because users should notice little
difference.

Thanks
Jeff