Miguel de Icaza wrote: > My personal vote would go for Glib 2.x. Even if it is slightly harder > to build on old systems, it is becoming more and more ubiquitous > everywhere: Sure, let's depend on XFree86 4.3 too, it's getting more and more ubiquitous everywhere. > * Solaris ship with this, and MacOS will have to ship it as > part of their X distro to support fontconfig. I don't have solaris, nor macos. > * Every Linux system that uses Freedesktop.org or Gnome will > have it (Cairo, Fontconfig, depend on it anyways). I don't use either of these. > * Every installation where Mozilla runs will have it too. I use Opera. Anyway afair mozilla is distributed in a static binary. > I know it is very desktop-centric Do you really suppose this desktop-centric user will mess with a console filemanager with keyboard controls? > but pkg-config fixes a long standing problem in the Unix world: how to > detect, use and consume libraries easily. Sure. Ever tried to compile some pkgconfig-user program in "userspace", eg both with --prefix=/home/anywhere ? It won't work. Only as root, and /usr. So much for fixing long standing problems. (try sidplay2-lib and sidplay2 packages for example) -- Gabucino MPlayer Core Team
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