On 30 April 2012 14:27, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs >> pkg- >> config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. >> >> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a >> lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like >> to >> introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler (but >> compatible) implementations. > > > [1] pkgconf is not compatible as per Comment #5 of bug 413849. needs to > follow same version scheme as f.d.o's pkg-config.
not compatible != wrong. There is NO CASE in which a developer would hit this bug and customize their check in a way that would make it only work with fd.o pkg-config. In *EVERY* real-world case, the pkgconf behaviour would work just as well or better.
