19 Dec
2011
19 Dec
'11
9:15 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
n randomly looking at files and directories, I
found /usr/share/pkgconfig and though: "this ain't right"
For architecture-independent packages like the ones in todo, /usr/share/pkgconfig is a perfectly valid place to store these files. It's also in the default lookup path, so there's no reason to rebuild all these packages.
I had a look into this. According to pkg-config man both /usr/{share,lib}/pkgconfig seem to be equally valid. As to my package (udev) there is no clean way to move the pkgconfig files out of share without also moving the man pages, so I'd rather not unless there is a good reason (in which case I'll push a patch upstream). -t