[Fedora-packaging] -devel rpms with pkgconfig files should 'Requires: pkgconfig'

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jun 21 14:57:07 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 08:45 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Please don't force app packagers to 
> have to figure out if their ./configure script(s) use this macro or not, 
> I'd much rather things "just work". 

I do believe this was similar to the same argument that led to
buildroots being full installs.  Don't make app packages figure out what
package names they need in the build root, instead make it "just work".

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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