Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Banning modification of pkg-config files

[Tom Wijsman]

On Fri, 09 May 2014 21:10:50 +0100
Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:

> On 05/09/2014 09:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:57:29 +0100
> > Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> I was wondering, is there a good reason we keep our own pkgconfig
> >> files instead of communicating that to upstream and resolve that
> >> properly?
> >
> > Yes, when your "instead of ..." is not an option.
>
> Why not? If the package does not work out of the box then something is
> broken upstream?

Some upstreams don't care about Gentoo's practices like slotting and/or
dynamic linking; similarly, similar practices on other distributions.

> If it works for Debian but not for us then maybe we do something
> wrong?

This mixes two things. It currently works for the Lua maintainers, as
those pkgconfig files are present; just like they are present on Debian.

> >> What other distributions do? Or are we a special case and
> >> we need our own pc files?
> >
> > No, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509392#c23 which
> > reads:
> >
> >     "You do realize that out of five distros (Fedora, Debian,
> >     Slackware, SuSe, Mandriva) I checked five ship a .pc file?" by
> > mabi.
> >
>
> I am not talking about Lua here. It's a more general question.

Ah, I see; it's just that we come from the Lua context background, so
it'll often be used as example. As for in general, we'll indeed need to
investigate what other distributions do; but, Lua is that special case.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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