[kde-freebsd] How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:04:44PM -0400, Jason E. Hale wrote:
> On Monday, July 23, 2012 20:50:34 Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Here is a plan for pkg-config, I hope it will statisfy everyone.
> > 
> > First we need to get rid of pkg-config, since 0.26 we can't boostrap it
> > anymore because it depends on glib which depends on pkg-config.
> > 
> > Hopefully we have a viable alternative.
> > 
> > What I will do is :
> > step 1/ introduce a new pkgconf port (https://github.com/nenolod/pkgconf)
> > which is 100% compatible with pkg-config and considers any incompatibility
> > as a bug.
> > 
> > along with this, I will introduce a new MACRO:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/USE_PKGCONFIG.diff
> > 
> > USE_PKGCONFIG= yes or USE_PKGCONFIG= build
> > will bring pkgconf only has a build dependency
> > USE_PKGCONFIG= run
> > 
> > will bring pkgconf has a run dependency (some things like ruby wrapper or
> > perl wrapper)
> > 
> > USE_PKGCONFIG= both
> > will bring both run and build deps.
> > 
> > Why a MACRO, because some ports may need en environnement variable in
> > CONFIGURE_ENV
> > PKG_CONFIG=pkgconf do work correctly.
> > 
> > the USE_GNOME=	pkgconfig will be automatically add USE_PKGCONFIG= both
> > 
> > Yeah sorry for step one will keep pkgconf in both dependencies.
> > 
> > This is necessary because too much ports rely on one of their deps bringing
> > pkgconfig, and this concerns about 4k+ ports.
> > 
> > All the gnome one (mostly), all the xorg one (xproto bring pkgconfig) most
> > of the gtk ones, most of things depending on libxml2 and curl, from what I
> > have seen.
> > 
> > step 2/ advertise the maintainers to stop using USE_GNOME= pkgconfig but
> > rather switch to USE_PKGCONFIG, and do it actively.
> > 
> > setp 3/ drop USE_GNOME= pkgconfig from bsd.gnome.mk
> > 
> > when switching to USE_PKGCONFIG becare full about the ports that depend on
> > your ports to make sure, it doesn't expect pkgconfig being brought by your
> > port.
> > 
> > regards,
> > Bapt
> 
> I think it might be a good idea to factor out the pkg-config hacks provided by 
> USE_GNOME=gnomehack as well, and expand it to work with CMake (or other build 
> systems if needed).  Most ports that install .pc files must be fixed to 
> install them in libdata instead of lib.
> 
> Jason E. Hale

That is a good idea, good be done after the switch to pkgconf.

It will need some volunteer :)

regards,
Bapt
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