[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/13] new package: openrc-0.41.2

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Michal,

On Thu, 09 May 2019 12:30:24 +0200
michal.lyszczek at bofc.pl wrote:

> >  - What is the effect of MKPKGCONFIG=no ? What is openrc using
> >    pkg-config for ?  
> 
> openrc does not use pkg-config per se, if MKPKGCONFIG is enabled, it will
> just install *.pc files on rootfs for other programs to find librc and
> libeinfo. These libs exposes C api to controll openrc (al rc-* functions
> uses it). From the looks of it, these libs would be usefull if you wanted
> to write your own programs to manager services, and vast majority of people
> using openrc won't need it. Also, that's the reason why there is not
> INSTALL_STAGING=yes.

OK, thanks for the explanation, it makes perfect sense. Could perhaps
be explained in the commit log or in a comment in the .mk file.

Thomas
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