From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SOvX8-0003aG-7F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:41:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72D84E0C20; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35126E0C11 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so2407609bkc.40 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:40:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7DduUWnsO4WL+AcbwQKDsm7JVObfKlltLjXQZk0RUos=; b=xp3loCAScIst33jLkcM8A3jZ8bfAfRLi8k8igBFItQNnw/I3ZQH9vCBYZx6Ey2n1ow VH/QzMUiRxfmwmDGiXxaycvCpD8P62UHvMsITDdskYV4v9yHB7S3ZC0qKn9GVsaC5uK0 2Gi6U6fSWsk74EtIV0pvd4E81a2NIA+5Xu3hDPmegifDlTk09AkjQ5Ec/fwVS9DwlzLx GJA1lKp3a9Vt3JGU2w3QSHt/ZHH9NPhefJzOoedWLcRwHW2AtyEjlZeYxpW79zmFDvjx /hr19LLuXWMKyTJGceewpnKPJC1L/wMIQs9ktl0W3FThWW4iolqtE3OHvbnPeV5n9lj4 Xidw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.148.83 with SMTP id o19mr3861657bkv.96.1335811203310; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: jdhore1@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.102.143 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:40:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F9ED991.3010002@gentoo.org> References: <201204291812.10559.vapier@gentoo.org> <4F9ED991.3010002@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:03 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dNECPTp75dph35vh9JBJa9DmIBM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives From: Jeff Horelick To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 172fba31-fb2a-4802-99f1-73bc972a258f X-Archives-Hash: c5b325b0c518c44b0716caf33af5c753 On 30 April 2012 14:27, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. =A0it requires glib-2. =A0it ru= ns >> pkg- >> config when building. =A0glib-2 requires pkg-config. =A0whee. >> >> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. =A0but we'd like to enabl= e a >> lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. =A0as such, i'd li= ke >> to >> introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler (but >> compatible) implementations. > > > [1] pkgconf is not compatible as per Comment #5 of bug 413849. needs to > follow same version scheme as f.d.o's pkg-config. not compatible !=3D wrong. There is NO CASE in which a developer would hit this bug and customize their check in a way that would make it only work with fd.o pkg-config. In *EVERY* real-world case, the pkgconf behaviour would work just as well or better.