On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 18:27 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> >
> > We've got two differing opinions on this, would anybody else like to
> > chime in?
>
> I think that if the usual method of using a -devel package is by using
> its .pc file with pkgconfig, then pkgconfig should be a dependency of
> that package. If the .pc file is provided as a convenience but most
> users of a particular -devel package don't use it, then don't add the dep.
That sounds nice, but I think it's too subjective to be an effective
practical rule that would really achieve much at all.
Note that no matter if the *.pc file is actually every used by anything,
there's always the issue of installing stuff into unowned dirs if the
dependency is not there (%{_libdir}/pkgconfig in this case), which is an
explicit MUST no-no in the current review guidelines. This assumes that
only pkgconfig owns the dir; owning it in all packages would feel
somewhat silly to me.
My +1 to always adding the dependency in packages that install *.pc
files.
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