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Hi, |
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(please avoid cross-list e-mails in the future if possible. Makes |
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threading horrible) |
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On 05/09/2014 07:21 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: |
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> On 05/09/2014 04:07 PM, hasufell wrote: |
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>> I ask the council to vote on banning pkg-config files that would |
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>> be added or renamed downstream (at least this will prevent new |
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>> violations). |
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> |
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> I want to repeat my stance from the linked bug that making this a |
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> policy or calling on council to add more weight to existing devmanual |
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> bits is adding red tape that from my point of view decreases the |
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> quality of Gentoo. Asking me to remove the pkg-config file for lua-5.2 |
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> or removing the modifications to 5.1 will kill support for packages |
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> depending on these files existing. |
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> [...] |
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I was wondering, is there a good reason we keep our own pkgconfig files |
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instead of communicating that to upstream and resolve that properly? |
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What other distributions do? Or are we a special case and we need our |
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own pc files? |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras |
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