Re: pkg-config-0.26

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:07:04PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > > My objection stands. I still don't see any point in adding such a huge
 > > dependency.
 > 
 > How does it affect you?

I would prefer not to add more things that depend on glib2 than
necessary, just because rebuilding them after the fairly frequent
glib2 updates is a nuisance. However, things like desktop-file-utils
that end up being runtime deps of many other packages are a much
bigger issue in this regard.

(What does desktop-file-utils actually do and is there a reasonable
way to make it lighter?)

 > And who will maintain pkg-config-0.25, if we want to stay there forever?

Pursuing a replacement seems like a decent plan, assuming someone's
willing to do it. ISTM that it should just be a shell script, but
maybe I'm underestimating how much work it does.

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David A. Holland
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