Re: dropping autogenerated dependency on pkg-config

2019-05-01 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, May 1, 2019, 6:15 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:04:55PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:50 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:47 AM Tomasz Kłoczko < >

Re: dropping autogenerated dependency on pkg-config

2019-04-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:50 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:47 AM Tomasz Kłoczko > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 20:09, Rex Dieter wrote: > > [..] > >> > >> The work required to fix packages affected by this disadvantage > >> (potentially) far outweighs any advantage

Re: Diagreement with pkgconfig removal

2017-01-23 Thread William Pitcock
Hello, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2017-01-14 06:45, Neal Gompa wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Pavel Raiskup >> wrote: >>> >>> On Friday, January 13, 2017 1:18:34 PM CET Neal Gompa wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Pavel Raiskup

Re: Diagreement with pkgconfig removal

2017-01-14 Thread William Pitcock
Hello, On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Björn Persson wrote: > Neal Gompa wrote: >> Because pkgconf supports the full specification, including Provides >> rules. pkgconfig does not. It's been *years* and they never added >> support for it. It's even documented to be a stub implementation in >> p

Re: Diagreement with pkgconfig removal

2017-01-14 Thread William Pitcock
Hello, On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Hi Neal! > > On Saturday, January 14, 2017 9:51:39 AM CET Neal Gompa wrote: >> > I hope no. Can you be precise here? I'm all for protecting Fedora's >> > interests.; >> >> I strongly believe in Fedora's Foundations[0], which include

Re: Diagreement with pkgconfig removal

2017-01-14 Thread William Pitcock
Hello, On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 19:35 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> You argue that the change should be mostly painless, but without >> providing any details: why not rebuild a 10 or 100 or 1000 packages >> in a mock root with

Re: Diagreement with pkgconfig removal

2017-01-14 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 09:51 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: >> And being afraid of >> switching to a different and fully compatible implementation of >> pkg-config just because it's not the implementation we've used for >> over a decade is co