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Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?



This one time, at band camp, Goswin von Brederlow said:
> 
> You are missing the point.
> 
> What if the library says "You must call /usr/bin/foo during build"?

Which package is this?

> The libarry does not use foo, only the user, so no depends?
> Or idoes forcing users to use foo make foo part of the API and hence
> the library should depend on it?

If you require something to be run, you get the dependency.  Is there
some package where any of this is relevant?
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