On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 13:20:18 +0100
Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you go that way then it would be best if this function had a
> > 'has "virtual/pkgconfig" ${DEPEND} || die ...' kind of logic
>
> You can't reliably query DEPEND in an ebuild.
yeah i though so
> > the message is more intended towards package maintainer and i would
> > assume they have pkgconfig installed which means the failure will
> > be on user's throat
>
> ...in the extremely unlikely case of not having pkg-config installed.
... that has far greater chances to be hit by an user than a
developer :)