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> create_pkgconfig()

this sounds like a very bad idea.

pkgconfig files are common interfaces and should almost never be
created/modified/renamed anywhere except upstream.

debian packagers are already messing up pkgconfig files randomly
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498416 (broke
devilspie2)
also happened for dev-cpp/tbb and a few packages I don't recall right now

The result is that pkgconfig files don't represent common interfaces
anymore, cause application developers can't rely on them being
integrated in different distros in the same way.
Once this evolves further people will stop using them, cause it breaks
build systems.
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