On 04/30/2012 10:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400
Mike Frysinger<vap...@gentoo.org> 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 ?
Maybe if pkgconf proves really good we could finally add pkg-config dep
to @system...
Uh no...
I thought we are in process of minimizing @system and correcting
dependencies in ebuilds accordingly
--depclean should be able to clean out things like pkg-config which are
not needed at runtime
