Missing pkgconfig dependencies

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:40 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:32 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:01 +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> > > Wouldn't It Be Cool(tm) if rpm did pick these dependencies automatically?
> > [snip]
> > > Anyone care to integrate the above into the RPM scripts?
> > 
> > Nalin has a patch for pkg-config[1] to make it so that it could print
> > out the bits you need to integrate nicely with a find-requires.  I think
> > he also had the redhat-rpm-config bits as well.
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > 
> > [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2458
> > 
> 
> Should we put that patch in our pkgconfig package ? Upstream development
> of pkgconfig seems dead...

hp has commented many times that pkgconfig is the world's easiest
package to maintain because it does exactly what people want, and has
done so for years without the need for change...  so its not that
development is dead, its that for once on Linux, the software "Just
Works" :)

Dan