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On Mon, 12 May 2014 23:43:34 +0200 |
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Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> Yeah, it's tricky; this makes me think, can't we perhaps install them |
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> in a separate directory that pkg-config could check? |
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A quick collective brainstorm on IRC gives the idea that this is not |
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worth the effort, as this imposes patching multiple packages, as well as |
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migrating the deferring packages to it; for the sake of introducing |
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INSTALL_MASK supported breakage, where one could grep for the packages |
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that install .pc files and add the more specific paths to INSTALL_MASK. |
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Another idea that came up is to only have this separate directory be |
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read by the ebuild environment, such that it doesn't affect users that |
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are developers and mistakenly use the .pc files in their own program; |
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but such support would introduce overcomplex behavior in the ebuild |
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environment of Portage, which is already enough complex as it is. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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