On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:28 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > Instead fixing all <foo>-config scripts better will be remove them all > > > > and move all <foo> lib detections to use pkgconfig. > > > > This allow strip down entrophy on this area instead enlarging .. > > > > > > That would require patching all *upstream* users of library <foo> > > > to change their configury, which could involve redoing all of their > > > auto* files. It's not a 'small' amount of work. > > In many cases, it's trivial to add pkgconfig files (if upstream doesn't) > > and to rewrite <pkg>-config scripts as wrappers to pkgconfig. > > > > Whether this makes sense and has a long term perspective, are different > > matters. > > Exactly, that's what this change was. Tomasz was suggesting just > removing the foo-config scripts. OK, of cause, the latter is not an option unless upstream doesn't. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
