On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:57:29 +0100
Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I was wondering, is there a good reason we keep our own pkgconfig
> files instead of communicating that to upstream and resolve that
> properly?

Yes, when your "instead of ..." is not an option.

> What other distributions do? Or are we a special case and
> we need our own pc files?

No, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509392#c23 which reads:

    "You do realize that out of five distros (Fedora, Debian,
    Slackware, SuSe, Mandriva) I checked five ship a .pc file?" by mabi.

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