[HEADSUP] devel/pkgconfig is gone, long live devel/pkgconf

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 02:22:12AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> A simple grep of the tree shows at least 644 more uses of USE_GNOME=
> pkgconfig, including some in bsd.xorg.mk.
> 
> Is work being undertaken to fix these, or have they been left as is on
> purpose?
> 

Yes on purpose because of the large hidden impact gnome@ team is working on
getting rid of USE_GNOME= pkgconfig, x11@ will also look at it.

maintainers are now highly recommended to switch to USE_PKGCONFIG the more
switches are done on leaf ports the easier it will be for gnome@ and x11@ to fix
their own usage of USE_GNOME= pkgconfig

Lots applications are using pkg-config at build time, and not requesting
directly the pkg-config dep, those are the priority imho

regards,
Bapt
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