Re: dropping autogenerated dependency on pkg-config

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:


> Proposal: let's drop the autogenerated dependency on /usr/bin/pkg-config
> (this would require a trivial change in /usr/lib/rpm/pkgconfigdeps.sh).
> 
> Note: autogenerated Provides/Requires like pkgconfig(foo) are not
> part of this proposal.
> 
> Advantages:
> - less entries in the dependency graph
> - removal of illogical dependency
> - less packages installed (pkgconf, pkgconf-m4, pkgconf-pkg-config,
> libpkgconf)
>   (Those packages are small, maybe 200k together so this isn't a strong
>    reason.)
> 
> Disadvantages:
> - stuff that uses pkg-config or pkgconf will need to grow a dependency
>   (e.g. meson which invokes /usr/bin/pkg-config internally).
>   so there will be some churn.

The work required to fix packages affected by this disadvantage 
(potentially) far outweighs any advantage

Now, if the proposal includes offering to help do a some/most of the work to 
fix all these, then I withdraw the objection. 

-- Rex
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