[gentoo-dev] [RFC] iconv and libintl virtuals

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

Okay now that virtual/x11 introduced the new generation's virtuals, the 
decision of waiting to have virtuals for iconv and libintl can be considered 
concluded, and we might start adding them, right? :D

Proposed virtuals for now would be:

virtual/iconv: || ( sys-libs/glibc dev-libs/iconv )
virtual/libintl: || ( sys-libs/glibc sys-devel/gettext )

The deps of programs using libintl would then be

RDEPEND="nls? ( virtual/libintl )"
DEPEND="nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"

for iconv instead simply add virtual/iconv to RDEPEND; note that most of the 
packages do depend on libintl but don't on libintl, as that is pulled in 
mostly as a dep of gettext... there are though some packages that actually 
uses libiconv directly, such as glib and mpd iirc.

If this is ok, I won't ask any maintainer to add that stuff by himself (well 
if somebody wants, I'll thank him for sure), I'll take care of updating the 
deps as they are needed.

Embedded team: this would probably be a good test for NLS support on uclibc, 
if you want, please add me (or alt) as CC if you'll ever have to file bugs of 
NLS not being correctly disabled with --disable-nls, as I found quite a few 
programs taking that bad.

Thanks to everybody who cared to read this mail.
-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE