Randy McMurchy wrote:
> On 11/4/2011 1:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> {,un}zip: System Utilities -> General Libraries
>> pkg-config -> Programming
>
> ?????
>
> I'm lost with these changes. I'd bet for every time the zip
> library is used, the (un)zip utils are used 20 times.
Yes, I agree. About the only reason for zip is for a user to package
something up to a Win only user.
> And how does pkg-config fit with programming? Just my take,
> but programming is using a language to build a program,
> library, or some utility that is used by an end user.
>
> Pkg-config is a system utility used to find out if a package
> exists on a system, where that package is located, and what
> dependencies that package requires. How does that fit with
> programming?
http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html
I see no use at all of pkg-config outside of programming.
-- Bruce
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