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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br>
This is not a choice I get to make. The users of my package may choose <br>
to use PETSc however they want. And /usr/share/petsc/Makefile.user or <br>
/usr/share/petsc/CMakeLists.txt are officially supported ways of using <br>
PETSc, so deciding to ignore these use cases and leaving junk flags in <br>
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/petsc.pc is not tolerable for me.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Since you said "your package", I have a few questions:</div><div><br></div><div>- why do your users need to know how to compile with PETSc?<br></div><div>- Shouldn't this be handled by you?</div><div>- And also, can't you tell your users how to use PETSc? (for example not to use the Makefile.user)</div><div><br></div><div>> And /usr/share/petsc/Makefile.user or /usr/share/petsc/CMakeLists.txt are officially supported ways of using PETSc, </div><div>Those two files are not the "officially supported ways of using PETSc."</div><div>They are examples of how to set up compilations using PETSc.</div><div><br></div><div>> leaving junk flags in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/petsc.pc is not tolerable for me.</div><div><br></div><div>Those are not junk flags, since they are not part of the pkg config standard</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://people.freedesktop.org/*dbn/pkg-config-guide.html__;fg!!G_uCfscf7eWS!d-as0YaTKRi7ARzjsQl9IU8ltIJCAw9yJy_g1VbAzfXYDaNPjDiC6o_WhtrhA8K7o1Lm5IAbSM--LkimyiQtut-CuKCpx6A$">https://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Stefano</div></div>