On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 3:20 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > I'm not convinced that this is worth it. There's nothing appreciably saved by doing this, and it creates an annoying inconvenience for people who are trying to package software in Fedora. You're spending a ton of effort for 200KB that will have outsized negative impact on the ecosystem by making it non-intuitively harder to package and use software. Beyond "removal of illogical dependency", which frankly only applies to how systemd is packaged, why do you want to do this? This doesn't save us an unwanted dep like the GCC removal does. This doesn't remove a massive buildroot dependency like the GDB one does. If you want the pkgconf-m4 package to not be auto-installed with pkgconf-pkg-config, I'm happy to make that change. But past that? What does anyone get from this? Basically nothing. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
