On Monday 23 October 2006 22:22, Olivier Crete wrote: > In the pkg-config case, I was wondering if every ebuild that installs > a .pc file should also have pkg-config in its RDEPEND.. Or should we > push pkg-config into the DEPEND of every package using it. Or both... The .pc file is not just used by pkg-config, some build systems mimic pkg-config by using .pc files directly. It would like having libtool as RDEPEND for every package installing a .la, it just makes no sense.
If your package uses pkg-config to discover stuff, you depend on pkg-config at buildtime. Point. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...
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