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Feature changed by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor)
Feature #306990, revision 6
  Title: pkgconfig automatic provides / requires
   
  openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger)
  reject date: 2009-08-12 11:07:53
  reject reason: Too late for 11.1.
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  Requested by: Andrew Jorgensen (ajorgensen)
   
Description:
  Integrate macros for automatically determining RPM provides / requires
  based on pkgconfig for -devel packages.
  This would consequently automatically determine the dependency chains
  between -devel packages that use pkgconfig.
  It would also allow packagers to use the pkgconfig(pkg) string instead
  of the specific -devel package name.  This would make packaging easier
  both for cross-distro spec files and because when configure complains
  that a pkgconfig package is missing the packager can immediately add
  the BuildRequires rather than searching to determine which package
  contains that .pc file.
  Fedora and Mandriva both already have this feature.
   
  Discussion:
  #1: Michael Löffler (michl19) (2009-08-12 13:40:48) 
  Henny, may you share your thoughts/recommendation with that?
   
  #2: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) (2009-09-28 13:09:15) (reply to #1)
  this is something for the RPM maintainer
   
+ #3: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) (2009-10-15 21:28:24) 
+ I think this would be something really useful to have especially since
+ this is something that other major rpm based distros use
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/306990