The following reply was made to PR pkg/32733; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jussi Liukkonen <jml@ascia.fi>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32733: shared-mime-info buildlink pkg-config wrapper doesn't find all modules
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:22:04 +0200

 On 4.2.2006, at 19:55, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
 
 >  Do you mean you want to use a native
 >  package instead of the pkgsrc one and it doesn't pick up the  
 > pkgconfig
 >  file of the native one?
 
 Exactly. The point of pkgconfig is to make things like this (using  
 modules installed in various places) easy by encapsulating the build  
 parameters behind a well-known abstraction. Not utilizing it sort of  
 defeats the purpose of the mechanism (as well as breaks pkgsrc's  
 PREFER_NATIVE/USE_BUILTIN mechanism).