Dependency chaos. Some packagers have started with adding
Requires: %{_libdir}/pkgconfig
instead of the good old "Requires: pkgconfig". Not only is this dependency
expensive -- the filelists metadata must be loaded and parsed -- it doesn't
work correctly either, because
1) package "pkgconfig" is not multilib'ed, so e.g. pkgconfig.i386 is
not available in the x86_64 repo, and hence nothing provides the
/usr/lib/pkgconfig directory, (and it would be a broken dep) but
2) a couple of other packages include %_libdir/pkgconfig by accident,
which violates the packaging guidelines. Namely:
openchange-devel 499655
ipod-sharp-devel 499658
sane-backends-devel 499659
libXScrnSaver-devel 499660
freetype-devel 499661
anthy-devel 499663
Since these are multilib'ed, a dependency on /usr/lib/pkgconfig
doesn't pull in pkgconfig.i386 but one of these -devel packages
instead.
[...]
Conclusively, neither "Requires: %{_libdir}/pkgconfig" nor
"Requires: pkgconfig%{_isa}" will work as expected.
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