Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Looking at *-config, I was bemoaning the fact that these FOSS packages > feel the need to drop their detritus in my path. There are far far > better solutions that could have been done had some actual "engineering" > taken place. (E.g. a common registry, or dot files in ~, or > something.)
*-config only exist for backwards compatibility in most packages now, because some engineering was done several years ago, and most packages have moved to providing *.pc data files used by the common pkg-config command. Compare the number of files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig to the number of /usr/bin/*-config commands and learn just what you were saved from. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering