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Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:12:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH kmod v2 3/4] kmod: Add config command to show compile
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On Friday 2023-07-14 16:02, Michal Suchánek wrote:
>> 
>> What about doing it like systemd and generate a .pc file instead 
>> that can then be queried like so, e.g.:
>> 
>> $ pkg-config kmod --variable=modulesdir
>
> - .pc files would be shipped with libkmod development package, not the
>   kmod tool in a binary distribution

On that point: No, they would not.
Again, confer with systemd: systemd.rpm(SUSE) provides systemd.pc,
systemd-devel.rpm provides libsystemd.pc. kmod.rpm would provide
kmod.pc, kmod-devel.rpm would continue to provide libkmod.pc as
it does today.