Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 14:16:18 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling =?UTF-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r435576 - head/devel/pkgconf Message-ID: <20170308141618.68c6f0ec@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <e2a17a43-d9f9-dbc7-a73c-5317440b4357@FreeBSD.org> References: <201703070103.v2713JtB059883@repo.freebsd.org> <e2a17a43-d9f9-dbc7-a73c-5317440b4357@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 22:02:44 +0100 Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Le 07/03/2017 =C3=A0 02:03, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav a =C3=A9crit : >> Author: des >> Date: Tue Mar 7 01:03:19 2017 >> New Revision: 435576 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/435576 >> >> Log: >> Change the search path to include ${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig ahead of >> the usual ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig and /usr/libdata/pkgconfig. >> This renders 82.6% of Mk/Uses/pathfix.mk obsolete. >=20 > I am wondering how you came to commit this without getting approval > from portmgr. >=20 > We always had a policy about putting the pkg-config files in > libdata/pkgconfig and not in lib. >=20 > And you just changed that 20 years old policy without even a > discussion about the repercussions it would have. >=20 > For example, there is a lot of software around that knows that FreeBSD > has the .pc files in libdata/pkgconfig, and now, with this, you are > paving the way to moving things in lib, and I figure we are going to > need a USES=3Dpathunfix to put things where you changed it. >=20 >=20 > So, before changing this policy, I am going to ask you, as portmgr, to > please back the change out. >=20 >=20 > Once this is done, and if you feel strongly about it, we can always > discuss changing the policy, and then test that it will not break > things, and then, maybe change the policy. But only after all those > steps. There's a thread on ports@ and arch@ "manpath change for ports ?" Can you voice your concerns there so we can keep the discussion there? So far the thread has received nothing but positive feedback.
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