Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg-
> config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee.
>
> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but we'd like to enable a
> lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems.  as such, i'd like to
> introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler (but
> compatible) implementations.
>
> we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is also
> "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf".  they should be compatible with the canonical
> pkg-config.  they aren't yet in the tree, but will be once we agree on this
> topic.
>
> any comments ?
> -mike

=dev-util/pkgconfig-9999 with USE="internal-glib" in Portage.  I'm 
hoping this will render the pkg-config-lite useless so we can drop it.

I'm very much intrested in knowing if this matches the requirements for 
doing so, so I can decide whether I should be rolling also a snapshot 
ebuild for ~arch or not.



And entirely different thing...

And I'll look into making pkgconfig-openbsd suitable for the virtual 
today too, but I'm not expecting to KEYWORD it ever since even the 
OpenBSD guys declare it only partly compatible in their docs/code.