Hi, (please avoid cross-list e-mails in the future if possible. Makes threading horrible)
On 05/09/2014 07:21 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: > On 05/09/2014 04:07 PM, hasufell wrote: >> I ask the council to vote on banning pkg-config files that would >> be added or renamed downstream (at least this will prevent new >> violations). > > I want to repeat my stance from the linked bug that making this a > policy or calling on council to add more weight to existing devmanual > bits is adding red tape that from my point of view decreases the > quality of Gentoo. Asking me to remove the pkg-config file for lua-5.2 > or removing the modifications to 5.1 will kill support for packages > depending on these files existing. > [...] I was wondering, is there a good reason we keep our own pkgconfig files instead of communicating that to upstream and resolve that properly? What other distributions do? Or are we a special case and we need our own pc files? -- Regards, Markos Chandras
