svn commit: r423237 - head/Mk/Uses

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 4 10:47:14 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 12:04:15PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> ...
> Can't we just use lib/pkgconfig already?  Having to patch every port
> to move it to libdata is pointless extra work.  Nobody cares that these
> files are in libdata.

Well I kind of do.  These files are not libraries (code) but data, so it
naturally belongs to `libdata', alongside with `ldconfig[32]'.

Is there any rational explanation why most GNU/Linux distros put them in
`lib' (apart from lack of thought in the first place)?

./danfe


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