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[Bill Nottingham]

Tomasz Kłoczko (kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl) said: 
> Dnia 24-05-2006, śro o godzinie 14:29 -0400, Bill Nottingham napisał(a):
> [..]
> > > > If we want to have the foo-config scripts warn, sure. Possibly
> > > > even patch our own Core & Extras packages. But randomly breaking
> > > > third-party software so it won't build isn't really practical.
> > > 
> > > I'm start from fribidi. OK. Lets look on some facts. Where it library is
> > > used ? abiword ? (in all other cases applications are using fibidi
> > > embeded in pango) huh .. where in this case is *real* problem ?
> > 
> > All other cases? Do you know the extent of all fribidi using
> > software that exists (not just Core/Extras)?
> 
> One in core: wordtrans. One in extras: abiword.
> In case abiword for detecting is used pkgconfig.
> In case wordtrans there is no detections.
> BTW wordtrans: instead useless fixing fribidi-config better will be help
> fixing wordtrans for not use fribidi (by use pango).

No offense, but you missed the point. It's not about core and extras.
It's about the entire universe of software who autoconfed against m4
files that call <foo>-config.  We can't fix the stuff we can't ship;
all we can do by changing this is break them.

Bill