On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:49:28PM +0200, Predrag Ivanovic wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 19:19:06 +0200 > Juergen Daubert wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >the latest pkg-config, version 0.26, no longer ships with a bundled > >glib but depends on a system glib. That means core/pkg-config would > >depend on opt/glib, which is of course not acceptable. > > > >We have two options IMO: > > > >a) move pkg-config to opt. At a first glance I don't see any core-port > > depending on it, so this should work. > > The drawback is, that every opt/contrib-ports which has pkg-config > > as a (buildtime-)dependency must list it in the dependency header. > >b) move glib to core. > > > >Opinions? > > > > Since glib depends only on core/libpcre, and most ports from opt/contrib are > likely to > depend on pkg-config, cleanest/simplest solution would be moving glib to > core, imho. > btw, are ports from core considered implicit dependencies (should not be > listed in Depends field > in Pkgfile since it is assumed that there are always installed on a > system)?Or are there exceptions to that? >
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Our wiki page PortGuidelines [1] defines how dependencies should be handled. Greetings Juergen [1] http://crux.nu/Main/PortGuidelines -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:j...@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux _______________________________________________ crux-devel mailing list crux-devel@lists.crux.nu http://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux-devel
