Exactly my thoughts. We can do better than both these solutions but it's going to take an industry to adopt the practice. I like what vcpkg is doing... I'm a cm

Exactly my thoughts. We can do better than both these solutions but it's going to take an industry to adopt the practice. I like what vcpkg is doing... I'm a cmake guy myself, but I always found pkg-config to be useful to the point where you're upset when it's not present and that presents a problem. Build chains need consistency, reproducibility, and some form of order.