On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 08:42 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:26 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 09:06 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes: > > > > => They are designed in a way, they prevent parallel installation of > > > a > > > > potential OSG1 and OSG2 package. > > > > > > This is a valid technical reason, the ones you gave before aren't. > > Yes, I didn't mention them, because I respected to upstream's decision > > not to ship *.pc's. > > ... And this is why. Ralf, all you did was explain why you're doing what > you're doing (and not even going into the details and the rationale). This whole thing has a long history, so let me reiterate it one final time: * OSG1 upstream had shipped *.pcs. This had let applications caused to rely on them being present. * OSG has decided to abandoned *.pcs with OSG2. This causes applications to break. Working around this reveal bugs in applications. I decided to follow upstream and not to re-add a proprietary isolated "wanna-be solution" like Debian does. > However, you didn't really offer a solution to Chris (or Kevin) that > would appeal to their technical skills and know-how. What more than offering Chris to help him in person to bring his packages to compile can I offer? What he did was to take out a gun, aim at my head and yell "Arse, you add them package config files immediately or I'll shoot" He preferred to pull the trigger. > If upstream decided to do things the way they did, they must be > satisfying a requirement, need or want that they have. How does that > translate to the Fedora related package packager's needs? Upstream released a new MAJOR release - This broke applications. This is expected to happen, maintainer either get their things functional or retire these packages. > What would the > alternative to pkgconfig .pc files then be? Passing CFLAGS and LIBS from the command line, like with any other package on this planet. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
