On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:12:25 +0100 Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > El mié, 27-02-2013 a las 19:27 +0100, Alexis Ballier escribió: > > [...] > >>> The reason I bring this up again is that there was a strong > >>> argument yesterday in #gentoo-dev, so it seems the situation is > >>> NOT clear. > >> > >> What are these arguments ? The IRC conspiracy is hard to follow :) > >> > > > > I also read that argument... but it looked to turn more in a > > "personal" flame war than anything "technical". For example, I > > couldn't see how multilib-portage solves the issue of different > > headers provided for different arches (that looks to be the key > > problem that mgorny tried to solve in freetype) > > > > multilib-portage has no issues with abi-specific headers, since those > are installed into a seperate abi-specific location > inside /usr/include with a wrapper in the original location to not > break depending packages. yes, thats the kind of solution that should be implemented for freetype too. putting all headers under /usr/lib doesnt seem sane. There exist default locations for headers for a reason, leveraging the issue to using pkg-config seems wrong.
