Darshit Shah <[email protected]> writes: > On 10/31, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>On 31 Oct 2014 16:50, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: >>> Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> writes: >>> > Newer versions of these packages ship with pkg-config files, so if we can >>> > detect it via those, do so. If that fails, fall back to the old methods. >>> >>> so far I always tried to stay as far away from pkg-config as possible, >>> but if that is used by distro maintainers then we should probably >>> reconsider it. > > I favour pkg-config too. It would make our lives a lot more simpler. >> >>distro maintainers extremely prefer it over each package doing its own >>(limited >>testing) in build files (i.e. configure) or using legacy xxx-config scripts. >>pkg-config is way more reliable than either of those. >>-mike
ok thanks for your opinions. I've added the changelog entries and going to push the series. Regards, Giuseppe
