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Re: 02/05: gnu: libmad: Install pkg-config file.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: 02/05: gnu: libmad: Install pkg-config file. |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:11:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Kei,
Kei <kkebreau@posteo.net> skribis:
>> It seems to me that we shouldn’t provide .pc files if upstream doesn’t
>> do it. The main reason is that developers who use Guix will come to
>> rely on it and unknowingly write code that doesn’t work on other
>> distros. (I remember pestering in the past as I stumbled upon packages
>> who depended on some library as packaged by a specific distro. :-))
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Apologies if I missed an earlier discussion!
>
> No apologies needed, the discussion was minimal at best. This patch is the
> result of my yielding to the forces of incompatibility you mention. Major
> distributions like Debian, Arch Linux [1], and Fedora [2] have all added pkg-
> config files for (at least) libmad. Audacity expects to find pkg-config files
> for the system libraries it uses, so I supplied those to follow the path of
> least resistance.
Ah, that makes sense; it’s a case where I think it’s OK to follow the
majority.
Perhaps we can keep the .pc file for libmad, adding a comment mentioning
what you wrote above, but remove it in those cases where it’s not needed
(as in: not required by Audacity & co., and not done in other distros)?
Thanks,
Ludo’.