On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Wookey wrote:
It's not really "en vogue", it's historic: many of the things that have their own *-config scripts are sufficiently old that they pre-date pkg-config so are not doing this just to be annoying. At the time they didn't have much choice.
Sometimes it is also done because not every system will have pkg-config, or the one which exists is not well maintained. It can be done in addition to supporting pkg-config.
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