[vorbis-dev] Distribution Fixes

[Michael Smith]

>> Ogg and Vorbis shouldn't have -config scripts in the first place. But the
>> argument applies to ao-config.
>
>I disagree. the -config scripts are a nice/easy way to get things such as the
>prefix, cflags, and ldflags of the installed package.

The simple argument is that getting this information isn't actually useful
for libogg and libvorbis. They're two libraries, dependent on nothing else
(other than libc), and known to be dependent on nothing else. 

The -config scripts are useful primarily so that a program knows which
extra libraries it needs to link against. In the case of libao, there could
be a whole list of those (like libesd, to name a problematic example).
Since you don't need that for libogg and libvorbis, why bother with the
scripts? 

It's not something that really matters, so if you're really set on having
config scripts, there's no compelling reason to remove them. I don't expect
anyone else would ever use them, though.

Michael

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