On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 02:00:41PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > 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. Obviously. I would do most of the work myself. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
