On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:28 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203(a)freenet.de) said:
> > > Instead fixing all <foo>-config scripts better will be remove them
all
> > > and move all <foo> lib detections to use pkgconfig.
> > > This allow strip down entrophy on this area instead enlarging ..
> >
> > That would require patching all *upstream* users of library <foo>
> > to change their configury, which could involve redoing all of their
> > auto* files. It's not a 'small' amount of work.
> In many cases, it's trivial to add pkgconfig files (if upstream doesn't)
> and to rewrite <pkg>-config scripts as wrappers to pkgconfig.
>
> Whether this makes sense and has a long term perspective, are different
> matters.
Exactly, that's what this change was. Tomasz was suggesting just
removing the foo-config scripts.
OK, of cause, the latter is not an option unless
upstream doesn't.
Ralf