Bug 537330

Summary:	stage3 should get built with dev-util/pkgconfig[internal-glib]
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Stages	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler, felix.janda, gnome, patrick
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498436 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606260
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-01-22 10:02:17 UTC

Hello

As commented in bug 498436, Patrick doesn't let us to add dconf PDEPEND to glib because (even now with dconf not defaulting to +X and, then, not adding more dep than dbus) it will make stage3 bigger and also he doesn't like dbus to be included on them.

Couldn't stage3 be built with dev-util/pkgconfig to finally let the dep on glib to be dropped?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure

2015-01-22 13:33:54 UTC

Enabling "bundled libs" to get around dependencies issues, outside of circular dependencies, is in my view the wrong choice.
The dependencies for base packages like pkgconfig need to take into account profiles other than desktop/* and that they're need for building stages.

Comment 2 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-01-22 14:13:17 UTC

Shouldn't we switch to dev-util/pkgconf as default provider for virtual/pkgconfig instead? It seems to be much lighter on dependencies.

Comment 3 Felix Janda 2016-10-17 21:46:06 UTC

Any further thoughts on using dev-util/pkgconf for the stage3s?
stage3-mipsel3-musl-vanilla is already using dev-util/pkgconf instead
of dev-util/pkgconfig now.

Comment 4 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2018-01-11 16:22:32 UTC

FYI I have tested this on current releng specs & gentoo repo.  Switching the virtual to prefer pkgconf does still produce working stages & isos.  On stage3-amd64 we are 2 packages smaller (glib & shared-mime-info go away), saving 6MB (bzip2) or 5MB (xz).

I'm not sure if it makes sense to change it ONLY for stage3 purposes, but if it would help glib maintainers out, it seems safe/sane enough.

Also I do not see any relevant outstanding bugs for pkgconf.

Comment 5 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-02-04 03:45:53 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=eb01105187d2c0fe5dfdb45fb3fa3ae49d1292b0

commit eb01105187d2c0fe5dfdb45fb3fa3ae49d1292b0
Author:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-02-04 03:39:45 +0000
Commit:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-02-04 03:45:03 +0000

    virtual/pkgconfig: Bump to prefer dev-util/pkgconf
    
    Blessed by floppym.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/537330
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/606260
    Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>

 virtual/pkgconfig/pkgconfig-1.ebuild | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

Comment 6 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2019-02-04 09:42:02 UTC

fwiw, I'm fine with pkgconf by default and might even consider last-riting dev-util/pkg-config at some point of time.

Comment 7 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2019-04-26 05:25:48 UTC

Not sure that there's anything else to do here.