Work needed, how you can help!

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 21:46:01 UTC 2008


On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:34:49 +0100, Kevin wrote:

> Well, there are cases where pkg-config is used at runtime, which is why the
> MUST was changed to a SHOULD and the "The placement of pkgconfig(.pc) files
> depends on their usecase, and this is usually for development purposes"
> wording is now used. Talk to the FPC folks if you need to know more about
> this issue. In the cases where it is indeed used at runtime, requiring
> pkgconfig is actually the right thing to do 

That only works if the entire .pc dependency-chain is available
in non-devel packages. In other words, it breaks if one of the .pc
files Requires a .pc file located in a -devel pkg.




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