On 01/01/13 23:01, Jeff Horelick wrote:
I would like to propose a switch of the order of DEPENDs in
virtual/pkgconfig to make dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config] the default
choice for new installations.
dev-util/pkgconf has less external dependencies, is lighter and is
faster than dev-util/pkgconfig while being now 100% compatible
This switch has already been made by Funtoo, Alpine Linux and FreeBSD
with very little in the way of ill effects recently from any of those
3 camps.
There are no more pending bugs against pkgconf (and Diego did a
tinderbox run with it a while back) in Gentoo.
pkgconf also has a upstream that is more than happy to work with us
specifically (or anyone for that matter) and I (a Gentoo developer) am
one of the upstream developers.
If this is approved, I will make the change in ~2 weeks. I'm not
planning on making a news item because users should notice little
difference.
Thanks
Jeff
i'd say never. there is no benefit in switching. pkg-config is the
default implementation from freedesktop.org.
pkg-config is now lighter and has less dependencies than before as the
switch from bundled glib1 to glib2 allowed dropping of the popt library.
and since pkgconf upstream doesn't properly follow pkg-config upstream
git and do necessary changes, like for bug 445796 it would mean
pkg-config related bugs would have to be reported to double upstream and
thus, not be maintainable
last I checked prefix didn't have issues with the pkg-config bootstrap
either. there is no circular deps either.
lose-lose situation for the switch, so over my commit access ;-)
