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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:36:38
Message-Id: 50E6AF9E.10202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig by Samuli Suominen
1 On 01/03/2013 02:58 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > On 02/01/13 15:29, Luca Barbato wrote:
3 >>> last I checked prefix didn't have issues with the pkg-config bootstrap
4 >>> either. there is no circular deps either.
5 >>
6 >> check glib deps iirc some non-glibc platforms have few problems with it.
7 >
8 > not if you enable USE=internal-glib. i've added the USE flag on request
9 > from vapier mostly, so we could punt pkg-config-lite from Portage. it
10 > should not depend on any of the stuff embedded (uclibc) has problems
11 > with anymore. as for anything other than uclibc, glibc, i'd like to see
12 > an bug, there isn't one
13 >
14 >
15
16 Doesn't that violate our policy on bundled libraries?
17
18 I would like to see us switch after Diego is happy with tinderbox
19 testing. That would put us in a position to eliminate glib from many
20 non-GNOME systems, provided that we kill the glib dependency in
21 udev/eudev. That is something worth exploring.

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