Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:40:38 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: gtk lib rename. Message-ID: <20060302214038.GA73259@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060302212556.004DC2288F@snail.stack.nl> References: <1491AB3E-4BA4-445E-A625-51900142534C@FreeBSD.org> <20060302212556.004DC2288F@snail.stack.nl>
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--Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:25:56PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Why do you need to parse them when: > >=20 > > pkg-config --cflags package > > and pkg-config --libs package > >=20 > > will do it for you? That's the whole point of those .pc files >=20 > No,=20 >=20 > Multiple reasons: [...] > Of course all this email wordplay is fun (I of course know I have a not > entirely standard port, and have practiced such discussions a lot over the > years), but I'm still wondering why there is no sane grace period of say = an > year with a couple of symlinks? It would save a lot of people a lot of > trouble, having to fix the ports at breakneck speed, decrease all breakage > with a magnitude, simply because a lot more systems will be up to speed in > an year etc. If you refuse to use the standard pkg-config method set up by the authors of the software (note: not FreeBSD), any problems that result are your own concern. Kris --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEB2ZWWry0BWjoQKURAiCoAKDTmesj0fjfjrhWAHwp4I3NR5ZkbQCghLGA zkXoLcvK5VktYPpuz+qn0v0= =mm/9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--
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