On Fri, 09 May 2014 21:10:50 +0100 Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 05/09/2014 09:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > 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. > > Why not? If the package does not work out of the box then something is > broken upstream? Some upstreams don't care about Gentoo's practices like slotting and/or dynamic linking; similarly, similar practices on other distributions. > If it works for Debian but not for us then maybe we do something > wrong? This mixes two things. It currently works for the Lua maintainers, as those pkgconfig files are present; just like they are present on Debian. > >> 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. > > > > I am not talking about Lua here. It's a more general question. Ah, I see; it's just that we come from the Lua context background, so it'll often be used as example. As for in general, we'll indeed need to investigate what other distributions do; but, Lua is that special case. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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