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Date:      Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:33:04 +0200
From:      Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Direct or indirect libdependencies (using the libintl.so.8 case)
Message-ID:  <4C0DF230.4010603@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100608092305.135975l67lzv7ksg@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger ha scritto:
>> How hard is it? What prevents us in doing it? Later we modify libtool
>> upstream, later we could switch to record only direct dependencies.
> 
> You should talk with the libtool maintainer about libtool.

Ah, you were all waiting for me to talk to libtool maintainer, you could
tell me before :-)

> Regarding the pkg-config stuff: you just have to determine which libs
> are direct and which are indirect deps for a specific port, move the
> indirect one into Libs.private, and then convince the upstream
> maintainers to pick up this change.

These are all "simple" steps. You haven't answered to "What prevents us
in doing it?" If we haven't already done it, I bet there is a reason.

-- 
Alex Dupre



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