Le 18/07/2019 à 18:26, Nicolas Chauvet a écrit : >> "Build dependencies on Fedora packages which provide pkg-config files SHOULD >> be expressed >> as pkgconfig(foo) and not foo-devel, whether the dependent package uses >> pkg-config or not." > > This is true for the fast majority of cases. Specially where there is > only one provider of pkgconfig(foo). > > But sometime there is a need for a compat library and then I don't > know if my package may uses the main library of the compat one. > pkgconfig(foo) will pick one or the other, but using the package name > is more deterministic to me. >
Indeed, pkgconfig(foo) start to raise issues when multiple providers exists. One example is pkgconfig(openssl) IMHO, if your package use pkg-config to discover a library, then it rely on foo.pc, then have to require pkgconfig(foo), else foo-devel make more sense. Remi _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
