[arch-dev-public] Packages added to todo list 'Some packages put their pkgconfig (.pc) files in /usr/share/pkgconfig instead of /usr/lib/pkgconfig'

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Mon Dec 19 03:50:24 EST 2011


On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 23:19 +0000, Arch Website Notification wrote:
> When 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.




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