Distro screwups (WAS: Re: introduce pkg-config files)

2010-10-27 Thread Torgny Nyblom
On Monday 25 October 2010 23.07.48 Pavol Rusnak wrote: [...] Have you read the blogpost I mentioned in my original email? Currently main KDE4 devel package has different name in every major distro. In my oppinion this just shows how brain dead many distros naming schemes are, if a

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-26 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Andreas Pakulat wrote: On 25.10.10 20:21:43, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Andreas Pakulat wrote: On 25.10.10 12:56:25, Allen Winter wrote: On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Allen Winter wrote: Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion..

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-26 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Andreas Pakulat wrote: On 25.10.10 12:56:25, Allen Winter wrote: On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Allen Winter wrote: Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion.. My only concern is that pkg-config files are typically installed in locations

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-26 Thread Pavol Rusnak
On 25/10/10 21:49, Alexander Neundorf wrote: What do you mean with use pkg-config files ? Use pkg-config to find other software or install pkg-config files for themselves ? Both are OK, but more crucial is adding pkg-config files to KDE libraries. E.g. they can provide full dependency

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-26 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Pavol Rusnak prus...@opensuse.org wrote: Have you read the blogpost I mentioned in my original email? Currently main KDE4 devel package has different name in every major distro. If pkg-config file was present then requiring symbol pkgconfig(kde4) would be

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-26 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 26 October 2010, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Pavol Rusnak prus...@opensuse.org wrote: Have you read the blogpost I mentioned in my original email? Currently main KDE4 devel package has different name in every major distro. If pkg-config file was

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-25 Thread Allen Winter
Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion.. On Friday 22 October 2010 2:34:26 pm Pavol Rusnak wrote: Hi all! Today I spoke with some KDE folks at the openSUSE Conference and we came to the conclusion that it would be great if all packages where it makes sense (mainly libraries) started

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-25 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Allen Winter wrote: Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion.. My only concern is that pkg-config files are typically installed in locations (like /usr or /usr/local) where the regular user doesn't have write-access. Thereby causing problems when installing KDE as a regular user. When

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-25 Thread Allen Winter
On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Allen Winter wrote: Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion.. My only concern is that pkg-config files are typically installed in locations (like /usr or /usr/local) where the regular user doesn't have

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-25 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 25.10.10 12:56:25, Allen Winter wrote: On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Allen Winter wrote: Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion.. My only concern is that pkg-config files are typically installed in locations (like /usr or /usr/local)

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-25 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 22 October 2010, Pavol Rusnak wrote: Hi all! Today I spoke with some KDE folks at the openSUSE Conference and we came to the conclusion that it would be great if all packages where it makes sense (mainly libraries) started to use pkg-config files. If they were What do you mean with

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-25 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 25.10.10 20:21:43, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Andreas Pakulat wrote: On 25.10.10 12:56:25, Allen Winter wrote: On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Allen Winter wrote: Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion.. My only concern is that

Re: introduce pkg-config files

2010-10-25 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 25.10.10 23:37:53, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Andreas Pakulat wrote: On 25.10.10 20:21:43, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Andreas Pakulat wrote: On 25.10.10 12:56:25, Allen Winter wrote: On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Allen Winter wrote: Adding the