Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.
In a word, "Yay!"
-- Garrett
