Re: pkg-config macro patch

[Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek rudy mif pg gda pl>]

On 2 Feb 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek rudy mif pg gda pl> writes: 
> > Incorrect question. Correct is: why pkg-config must have own copy popt and
> > glib files and why it can't use system installed libraries ? 
> 
> The answer to that is "because we want e.g. KDE to use it." So we
> don't want it to have that dependency.

And you want say "on KDE we cant use shared popt" ? why ? :_)

OK (if you want). But why this must affect *this* source code ?
Why not make this configureable on autoconf level ? (if you still want use
next copy popt). What on fixing some importand bugs in popt ?

popt is used by many other probably just installed applications in your 
system (on Linux it is installed with rpm).
IMHO using this in KDE can't be argument because if we follow on your
arguments much more applications can have own copy well own libraries and
much more applichations can be linked statically (for what ?).

popt is well developed and is very small. With istalled potp also usualy
are installed .mo files with translations messages for popt (look .. popt
in current pkg-config haven't i18n). Using this in form which you promote
makes kind lobotomy on this resources and also this bloats disk resources
next copy staticaly linked libraries (also on system only with KDE). Why
and for what ? :_>

kloczek
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