On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 17:26 +0200, Michael Schwendt 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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