From owner-svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Tue Oct 4 10:47:14 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552F9AF49DC; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danfe@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A35AA95; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danfe@freebsd.org) Received: by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 48B6C1BD3; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:47:14 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Tijl Coosemans Cc: "Tobias C. Berner" , portmgr@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r423237 - head/Mk/Uses Message-ID: <20161004104714.GA6232@FreeBSD.org> References: <201610040618.u946IWiR015188@repo.freebsd.org> <20161004120415.010a5d9e@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161004120415.010a5d9e@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:47:14 -0000 On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 12:04:15PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > ... > Can't we just use lib/pkgconfig already? Having to patch every port > to move it to libdata is pointless extra work. Nobody cares that these > files are in libdata. Well I kind of do. These files are not libraries (code) but data, so it naturally belongs to `libdata', alongside with `ldconfig[32]'. Is there any rational explanation why most GNU/Linux distros put them in `lib' (apart from lack of thought in the first place)? ./danfe