On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> wrote: > ]] Roger Leigh > > | On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:33:21PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > | > I've never used pkgconfig. But if it doesn't support it, it too should be > fixed. > > First, it's pkg-config, and secondly, no, it shouldn't. pkg-config > doesn't try to be everything to everybod and I haven't seen a valid use > case for this.
Eh, wouldn't this case be a valid use case? > | An alternative strategy to consider for the future: drop /usr entirely > | and place all libraries in /lib [as done on GNU/Hurd]. On current > | systems using initramfs the need for a separate / and /usr is gone. > | IMHO, there are nowadays few (if any) compelling reasons for having a > | separate /usr, and hence for having /usr at all other than as a > | compatibility symlink to /. Have we actually got any reasons for > | keeping it? > > I'd love to see this happening and would like the ability to have /usr > as a symlink to / as a release goal for squeeze. You mean Squeeze + 1? Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=gywr+qpn-vjawzkz1-f99czoa3-fhd6lfc...@mail.gmail.com
