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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:51:45
Message-Id: 50B6CD9E.5070004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass by hasufell
1 hasufell schrieb:
2 >> create_pkgconfig()
3 >
4 > this sounds like a very bad idea.
5 >
6 > pkgconfig files are common interfaces and should almost never be
7 > created/modified/renamed anywhere except upstream.
8
9 X11 team considered doing exactly that once after the nouveau API break in
10 libdrm-2.4.33, splitting libdrm_nouveau-2.4.32 into its own separate
11 package and renaming/modifying libdrm_nouveau.pc to make it installable in
12 parallel to more recent libdrm[video_cards_nouveau] (bug 409593 comment
13 30). We ultimately decided against it though.
14
15
16 Best regards,
17 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn