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On 02/01/13 17:28, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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>> i'd say never. there is no benefit in switching. pkg-config is the default |
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>> implementation from freedesktop.org. |
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>> pkg-config is now lighter and has less dependencies than before as the |
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>> switch from bundled glib1 to glib2 allowed dropping of the popt library. |
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> As a data point: pkgconfig and glib:2 are built during stage3 and |
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> removed during --depclean. Switching to pkgconf avoids glib:2 entirely |
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> and saves some stage3 building time. |
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so it's really an non-issue. |
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and if someone finds this really an important issue: |
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catalyst could be fixed to enable USE=internal-glib during stage |
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building, heck, I think we could wrap that functionality to USE=build ? |
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