Re: pkg-config-0.26

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 15:05, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:47:28PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> Here's an update for pkg-config to 0.26, the version where it switched
>> from its internal copy of glib1 to depending on glib2. (Incidentally,
>> this reduces the executable size from 95KB to 52KB.)
>
> My objection stands. I still don't see any point in adding such a huge
> dependency.

Agreed.

Maybe we should take a look at the OpenBSD reimplementation in Perl?
Or is that even worse in your opinion?

--Benny.


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