On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 07:30:06 +0100
Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote:

> Ryan Hill wrote:
> > You can NOT
> 
> I am not saying that it is a good idea, but of course you can. It has
> pretty sucky effects on how your library can be used, disabling
> various smart stuff that modern systems do, but I guess the upstream
> practises may be from a different time.

No, you can not do it because I will not let you.

> > Somebody sane please fix this.
> 
> I both agree and I don't. I guess it will be difficult for
> representatives from a given distribution to "fix" very much
> upstream, if possible I think that the distribution should instead be
> fixed to deal with the limits imposed by upstream practises.

I think you're missing something here.  This breakage was added to the Gentoo
ebuild by the "maintainer".  In fact, it immediately follows a bit of
code that sanitizes compiler flags from the pkg-config files, which was added
*specifically so we don't run into issues like this*.

> In this case I think it means the EAPI reverse dependency rebuild discussion.

Again, this has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm talking about.


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