Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/05/2012 09:02 PM, Jeff Horelick wrote: I didn't mention this last night (probably because I was EXTREMELY tired), but the entire gentoo-x86 tree has been converted to the virtual (Y!!! *kermitflail*). As long as you don't use any overlays, you should now be able to switch your pkgco

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-05 Thread Jeff Horelick
I didn't mention this last night (probably because I was EXTREMELY tired), but the entire gentoo-x86 tree has been converted to the virtual (Y!!! *kermitflail*). As long as you don't use any overlays, you should now be able to switch your pkgconfig implementation to pkgconf[pkg-config] or p

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 04 May 2012 05:43:55 Samuli Suominen wrote: > =dev-util/pkgconfig- with USE="internal-glib" in Portage. I'm > hoping this will render the pkg-config-lite useless so we can drop it. > > I'm very much intrested in knowing if this matches the requirements for > doing so, so I can decid

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 04 May 2012 05:30:31 Jeff Horelick wrote: > If anyone would like to help me converting random packages/categories, > it would be GREATLY appreciated. This is difficult work and it has > literally taken up almost all of my free time for the past 2 days or > so, but I have well over half th

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative for embedded/alternati

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 2 May 2012 12:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:11:58 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- >> we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is >> also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf".  

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:11:58 Mike Frysinger wrote: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- > we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is > also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf". they should be compatible with the > canonical pk

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-02 Thread heroxbd
Hi Mike, Mike Frysinger writes: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs > pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > any comments ? I would vote for it! I feel ill to bootstrap glib and pkg-config. It feels worse to call for a equal foot

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 April 2012 14:27:29 Samuli Suominen wrote: > +1 for creating the virtual and migrating the tree to use > virtual/pkgconfig. although, on the otherhand, you could just use > package.provided for thesetype of unsupported experiments (like i'm > doing with pkgconfig-openbsd) ok, with no

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 April 2012 15:42:35 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/30/2012 10:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it > >> runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config.

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2012 10:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd l

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it > runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to > enable a lighter alternative f

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 14:27, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs >> pkg- >> config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. >> >> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative for embedded/alternati

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 April 2012 02:16:40 Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: > > > I'd just like to say, i'm also an Atheme project member and I have > > > authorisation from nenolod (the primary pkgconf de

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 02:16, Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >> > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it >> > > r

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: > > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it > > > runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-co

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
On 29/04/12 21:17, Jeff Horelick wrote: > On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >>> On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when buil

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >> On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs >> > pkg- config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs > > pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > > > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Richard Yao
On 04/29/12 19:29, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 29/04/12 15:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- >> config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > >> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/04/12 15:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- > config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to ena

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- > config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but we'd like to enable a > lighter alternative for embedded/a

[gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like to introduce a