Re: dropping autogenerated dependency on pkg-config
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 06:29:06AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:04 AM Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> wrote:
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> On So, 28.04.19 20:55, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl) wrote:
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> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > currently, we autogenerate a dependency on pkg-config for all rpms
> > that ship a .pc file. "dnf repoquery --whatrequires
/usr/bin/pkg-config"
> > returns 4632 entries on my laptop.
>
> You probably need some base RPM to own the dir /usr/lib64/pkgconfig then,
> which is currently owned by pkgconf-pkg-config, no?
>
Correct. pkgconf-pkg-config owns all the base paths for pkgconfig content.
Or simply co-own the directory from all packages that put files there.
Systemd does this already, and explicitly skips the dependency on pkg-config.
Zbyszek