Subject: Re: bug#47159: 28.0.50; gnutls not recognized in build process without pkg-config

From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:09:20 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> [2021-03-18 14:25]:
> > Developers may forget those very basic packages/software as they
> > rarely develop from a plain system.
> 
> Please don't generalize what is basically a simple oversight to imply
> that Emacs developers are incompetent: the test for pkg-config is
> there, we just don't announce its failure to the user.

You know well how much I appreciate your work and others' work.

I am last person who would think "Emacs developers are incompetent" --
hey! 

Note the words "may forget those very basic packages" -- "may forget",
it is not meant as a rule.