Re: Bug#1116323: libllama-dev: pkgconf file in hidden location
On 2025-09-25 23:18, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 25 September 2025 at 22:51, Christian Kastner wrote:
> | I understand that you have a use case for the libraries, but I don't
> | understand the challenge here. Whatever you wanted to do, you
> | can still do, just add one more argument to pkg-config or cmake.
>
> Without the pkgconf redirection, how would I know where some other system or
> OS keeps the libraries?
To be honest, I assume that most other systems will install to the
default path.
> | > In reality the library likely moves too fast anyway.
> |
> | Yes, that is my point. I (or any other deployment) can't give you
> | predictability/stability if it's not there to give in the first place.
>
> That's ok. My risk in looking foolish in they eyes of any downstream users/
It's precisely to highlight this risk why this is (slightly) hidden. The
package descriptions of the -dev packages are explicit on this but my
guess was that they would be overlooked as boilerplate.
Things will most likely break on upgrades for a while, this way it's
ensured that this is not a surprise.
> Much appreciated. My dirty secret is that I am currently on Ubuntu 25.04
> anyway which doesn't have it yet so this may end up Docker / devcontainer
> based anyway.
I'm working on those as well. I'm just a bit swamped right now, but I
expect broader support by October, including backports.
Best,
Christian
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