circular dependency between glib and pkg-config

[Stuart Ambler <stuart zulazon com>]

Hi.  If no one here has looked into developments with pkg-config 0.26 
(see 
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.package-management.pkg-config/620 
), I hope someone will.  Apparently pkg-config used to contain within it 
an old version of glib, used mostly for strings, lists, hash tables, and 
a few other things, that the new version has removed and instead made 
itself depend on glib.  glib documentation, on the other hand, says that 
glib is dependent on pkg-config.

I wonder if it has been considered to break out the most stable portions 
of glib that could be thought of as C language extensions, into a 
package with no dependencies other than standard compiler and autotools, 
that can be used by glib as well as other packages written in C that may 
be unrelated to Gnome.  Or perhaps there's another clean solution. 
Perhaps the glib and pkg-config developers would come up with a good 
solution if they communicated; if that hasn't already happened.

Thanks.