Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 15:54 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: >> In most cases I would disagree with this. pkgconfig should be a dep >> of >> any package that provides a .pc file, which would result in pkgconfig >> being pulled in by the normal buildreqs of most packages (-devel >> packages for required libraries). > > I don't agree with this. -devel packages are useful w/out using > pkgconfig. If the package you are BUILDING can't figure things out > w/out pkgconfig, then that package must BuildRequires it. If most of the programs that use foo-devel use either the pkg-config-based foo-config or pkg-config directly, then I'd have to side with Paul, that the -devel pkg should Requires: pkgconfig Besides, pkgconfig is small, and it certainly causes no side-effects. No harm in adding it, only benefits that everything that includes 'BR: foo-devel' *just works*. -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
