One of the major primary features of EAPI 7 is the addition of BDEPEND and other B-prefixed variables. These are programs which are required for build and must be able to be executed by the building system. virtual/pkgconfig is for the most part only required for building barring the occasional buildsystem type package or IDE. It logically belongs in BDEPEND in almost all cases.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b2458fdb271fbebf6900a62208da07719f143f82 commit b2458fdb271fbebf6900a62208da07719f143f82 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-04-26 17:57:28 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-04-26 18:06:24 +0000 xorg-3.eclass: BDEPEND on virtual/pkgconfig Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/683866 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> eclass/xorg-3.eclass | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)