Requires: %{_libdir}/pkgconfig
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri May 8 07:58:14 UTC 2009
On Fri, 8 May 2009 12:51:17 +0530, Debarshi wrote:
> These days RPM automatically adds a dependency on /usr/bin/pkg-config.
> So in most cases where a package provides a *.pc file it should not be
> required to manually add the runtime dependency.
>
> Cheerio,
> Debarshi
"These days" translates to "Fedora >= 11". Packagers who push mass-dist-updates
should not eliminate their manual "Requires: pkgconfig" yet.
The /usr/bin/* file entries can be found in the primary metadata, so
dependencies on them are not as expensive as other file paths.
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