regression in meson build, AC_PATH_PROG lost

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 19:32 +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 06:49:15PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > In my opinion this move would place a significant burden upon
> > downstreams and users while taking very little burden away from
> > upstream developers because, regardless of whether or not build time
> > checks are performed, the task of maintaining the list of runtime
> > dependencies in *some* form still falls upon upstream: you would just
> > have changed it from updating three files to updating two.
> 
> I would say that nobody is arguing about the responsibility of providing
> list of runtime dependencies. In fact IMHO the ideal solution would be
> to have a complete list of all our dependencies with links to the
> respective upstream projects to make it clear.
> 
[...]
> 
> For downstream maintainers having a list of dependencies is IMO way
> better then running the build system several times to figure out what
> else they need to add to the package dependencies in order to
> successfully build the package. Obviously this applies to non-RPM based
> distributions.

If we take this opportunity to take stock of all the existing,
non-library runtime dependencies and document them accurately in a
document that's also going to be kept up-to-date going forward, then
most of my concerns are mitigated.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization