qt4-base-x11 publishing libraries for linking

While working on openssl-related packages, I noticed packages that build against qt4-base-x11 inherited "-lssl" and similar linking flags even if they did not use crypto, but packages using the qt4-base-mac variant did not. This is a feature of the .prl files in qt4-base-* that qmake uses to generate makefiles: both qt4-base variants link against libssl themselves, but only the -x11 variant publishes that flag to be used by its reverse-builddepends. This flag is inserted by a .info CompileScript segment documented as "FIX LA, PRL and PC FILES" (and with no other explanation when it was added in the 10.4ish era). The -mac variant used to do this also, but it was removed when that variant (but not -x11) was updated to a new upstream version in the 10.7 era:

https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/commit/723803b65f8ade8d94568ceeba213e61c798708e

At worst, removing it seems like it could trigger a compile failure if some package that used ssl directly was relying on inheriting it rather than asserting it directly, and would be easily fixed there. But having it sets a lot of inherited linking against unused libraries up the dep chain and makes it confusing to upgrade openssl deps cleanly. Any  objections to removing it from the -x11 variant? The package is unmaintained, but there is a request in the .info to discuss major changes on fink-devel first...

dan

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