rawhide report: 20060524 changes

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:28 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said: 
> > > > 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.
> 
> Exactly, that's what this change was. Tomasz was suggesting just
> removing the foo-config scripts.
OK, of cause, the latter is not an option unless upstream doesn't.

Ralf