On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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.
As a data point: pkgconfig and glib:2 are built during stage3 and removed during --depclean. Switching to pkgconf avoids glib:2 entirely and saves some stage3 building time.
