This better reflects the purpose of the package set, while leaving room for a fancier, more complete implementation of the concept, with a nicer name.
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pkg-config
pkg-config is a unified interface for declaring and querying built C/C++ libraries.
Nixpkgs provides a couple of facilities for working with this tool.
- A setup hook bundled with in the
pkg-config
package, to bring a derivation's declared build inputs into the environment. - The
validatePkgConfig
setup hook, for packages that provide pkg-config modules. - The
defaultPkgConfigPackages
package set: a set of aliases, named after the modules they provide. This is meant to be used by language-to-nix integrations. Hand-written packages should use the normal Nixpkgs attribute name instead.