On April 22, 2014 4:51:52 AM GMT+01:00, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> writes: >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > >>> That's orthogonal to this. Does that mean .pc files are preferred >over >>> krb5-config ? > >> My understanding is that the .pc files give a much richer description >of >> the package, and as such are preferred over krb5-config. > >This is particularly true when they use Libs vs. Libs.private properly >(and Requires vs. Requires.private), since then they also prevent >overlinking the resulting binaries. The MIT ones seem reasonably okay, >although I would argue with inclusion of -lcom_err in Libs given that >krb5_get_error_message is a thing that's existed for years. The >Heimdal >ones currently put everything in Libs, which makes them much less >useful. > >Jelmer, let me know if you'd like me to file a bug about that. Please do, I agree that is a bug.
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