On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> Eric Smith wrote: > > I don't really understand how this is "adding to the API" or results in > > incompatibilities. Do other people think that doing this is a mistake? > > Would it actually be better for the package not to provide pkg-config > > files? > > The reason we do not recommend adding non-upstream pkg-config files is that > software developed on Fedora then starts relying on those .pc files being > present and does not work on any other distribution. Those added .pc files > are useless for portable software. I don't see that it's any more useless than having to hack up Makefiles in some other way to do the equivalent, but if that's the policy, I'll remove them. Thanks, Eric
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