On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 31 May 2015 11:58, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> It might still be nice to adjust such packages for consistency, but it >> might be harder to justify patches to upstream developers. > > pkg-config already merged it and it's already been pulled back into Gentoo ;) > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90078 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550508 > > that said, i'm not entirely sure why there would be a lot of push back. > when i gathered data on this years ago (which i no longer have, so i'd have > to recreate), the increased foot print and runtime cost was not significant. > especially when you consider that we're talking about I/O operations which > inherently kill CPU performance due to stalls. > -mike
Sure, I don't really expect much resistance. I just like to be prepared in the event some developer starts asking questions.