On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:04:40AM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 04:19 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > At the present time and given the current state of the software I > > believe it is not in Debian's best interest that you ship a .pc file *at > > all* upstream > Interesting. Hmm. Can you explain in a bit more detail > why you think this is? pkg-config and libtool are both tools designed to facilitate portability to platforms which have inferior linkers, and in the process they duplicate information already provided by ELF libraries on GNU/Linux in a manner that makes dependency changes more rigid and fragile. http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/dependency-hell/ > It does seem 'contrary' in some way to Debian's policy > of things going in particular places .. yet people don't > always actually put them there .. :) I really have no idea what you're referring to here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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