How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng

Vitaly Magerya vmagerya at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 19:24:24 UTC 2012


Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Yes it is needed at runtime if you are a developper using sqlite3 and
> pkg-config:
> to use `pkg-config sqlite3 --cflags` and `pkg-config sqlite3 --libs` in
> your $APP build process.

It's $APP that needs pkg-config as a build dependency. Sqlite3 does
not need to depend on pkf-config at all; it should install .pc file
and nothing more. Look at lang/gcc, lang/python or devel/pcre: they
all do it this way.

In short, sqlite3 should completely drop the dependency on pkg-config.


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