On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Richard Guenther wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
From Fedora Guidelines: "Packages containing pkgconfig(.pc) files must Requires: pkg-config (for usability)."
I think that's wise and we should follow that. Installed pkg-config is ~200kB on disk.
I don't see why they need to Require: pkg-config, they will work perfectly fine without it so at most Recommends: pkg-config.
When a -devel package provides a .pc file, developers expect that all other projects will detect and include their library with pkg-config file. Any attempt to compile against such package without pkg-config should be considered as incorrect.
Huh, not. That would be a very confused upstream policy and if really required should be very few cases.
That is why I think that "Requires: pkg-config" is a good idea.
No, I think not. Requires are bad. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org