How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng

[Julien Laffaye]

On 7/20/2012 9:24 PM, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
> 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.
I am not trying to state what it should or should not do.
I am trying to guess why it is doing things like it does.