Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:03:25 +0300 From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> To: Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@freebsd.org> Cc: Reko Turja <reko.turja@liukuma.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSfXcBQjoWBYP63oZh6_-x5_FJtLdsk-iPepekS1TeRWJg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5009A876.2010905@freebsd.org> References: <D0056D18EAAD41119F26D0715FA52FB6@Rivendell> <50098EEF.8040801@shatow.net> <1E76612CE817410FAA2CF925F9CC300A@Rivendell> <CA%2B7WWSf%2B=rxt1gFfDXS%2BCwggJ2wSLSvdyzCR=GW2TZmPT0-VHw@mail.gmail.com> <AD251933EC034F5BA4FF2F37757C8D4D@Rivendell> <5009A876.2010905@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 7/20/2012 8:36 PM, Reko Turja wrote: >>> >>> Its use is not limited to Gnome, as you can see it's used in the build >>> process of databases/sqlite3 and there are many other ports that have >>> nothing to do with Gnome that use it the same way. The only thing that >>> is wrong with it is that ends up being a run time dependency of >>> sqlite3 instead of being only a build time dependency. Maybe this >>> could be changed, anyone know if it's possible? >> >> >> Actually, sqlite3 builds and works quite fine with pkg-config dependency >> removed from makefile. So it's kinda silly to pull it in by force - of >> course it's not pkgng problem, but a problem in the port itself. > > sqlite3 installs "/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/sqlite3.pc". > So I think the rationale is if a developper wants to link against sqlite3 > using the pkg-config file, he should have pkg-config on his machine. > If you go this way, you could also ask why sqlite3 install header files > which are not needed for the runtime dependency (when what is required is > only the shared object)... > This could be handled by having pkg-config only as a build time dependency for sqlite3 and for any port that depends on it, pkg-config is a build time tool much like autoconf, automake, libtool etc. and is not needed to use the port at run time.
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