pkg-config files

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes: 
> This afternoon, I asked Elliot Lee whether he'd accept a patch for ORBit2
> which makes it create a pkg-config file and I also offered him to write and
> test such a patch. I'm not talking about whether it's good or wrong to use
> pkg-config here, we discusses this a lot a long time ago and decided to use
> it starting with GNOME 1.4.
> 
> Having ORBit2 install a pkg-config file is necessary because other packages
> will depend on ORBit2 and so they need to list ORBit2 as a dependency in
> their pkg-config files. A maintainer which tells me that the easiest way to
> do this is to either fork ORBit or to use another ORB because he don't want
> to have this in his module doesn't help us here in any way.
> 

Elliot, what's the deal here?

Havoc

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