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[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:15 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tomasz Kłoczko (kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl) said: 
> > Dnia 24-05-2006, śro o godzinie 03:54 -0400, Build System napisał(a):
> > [..]
> > > fribidi-0.10.7-3
> > > ----------------
> > > * Tue May 23 2006 Caolan McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> 0.10.7-3
> > > - rh#192669# clearly I didn't actually get around to basing fribidi-config 
> > >   of pkg-config output
> > 
> > Instead fixing all <foo>-config scripts better will be remove them all
> > and move all <foo> lib detections to use pkgconfig.
> > This allow strip down entrophy on this area instead enlarging ..
> 
> That would require patching all *upstream* users of library <foo>
> to change their configury, which could involve redoing all of their
> auto* files. It's not a 'small' amount of work.
In many cases, it's trivial to add pkgconfig files (if upstream doesn't)
and to rewrite <pkg>-config scripts as wrappers to pkgconfig. 

Whether this makes sense and has a long term perspective, are different
matters.

Ralf