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Re: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs



This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> [making foo-config a wrapper around pkg-config]
> 
> > If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
> > build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
> > exactly a good idea.
> [...]
> 
> That is something I hadn't thought about, gnutls is LGPL. Thanks.

I'm not sure how that's a real problem.  Can you explain?  It's not like
you're proposing to link against libpkgconfig, even if such a thing
existed.  You already provide .la files, right?  Am I missing something?
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