Re: dropping autogenerated dependency on pkg-config

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:47 AM Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 20:09, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [..]
>>
>> The work required to fix packages affected by this disadvantage
>> (potentially) far outweighs any advantage
>
>
> Bollocks .. just sed/perl oneliner which will add BuildRequires: pkgconfig if in package is used any "BuildRequires: pkgconfig(<foo>) and remove from rpm dependencies autogenerator add "Requires: pkgconfig" if package has any on the list any pkgconfig file -> rebuild all affected packages.
> It should take ~1h for someone with proven packager priviledges.
>

Note that removing /usr/bin/pkg-config from the build environment also
stops pkgconfig() Provides/Requires from being generated.

And while I am a provenpackager and capable of making these kinds of
changes, I won't if I think they're not a good idea (like this one).


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