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Date:      Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:47:14 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@FreeBSD.org>, 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>
In-Reply-To: <20161004120415.010a5d9e@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
References:  <201610040618.u946IWiR015188@repo.freebsd.org> <20161004120415.010a5d9e@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>

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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



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