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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/libintl and virtual/iconv
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 23:18:38
Message-Id: 200505070116.11922@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/libintl and virtual/iconv by Mike Frysinger
1 On Saturday 07 May 2005 01:07, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > i didnt mean force gettext since we already track that so much in ebuilds,
3 > but having something like 'nls? ( libiconv )' in a libc's PDEPEND doesnt
4 > seem like such a bad idea to me
5 nls useflag is misused in that case, as freebsd-* packages already have a nls
6 useflag for other stuff, and it would be anyway a problem for packages like
7 glib2 which needs gettext also if nls is disabled.
8
9 > so instead you suggest updating a crap ton of ebuilds with a bunch of
10 > libiconv DEPENDs ?
11 That's just making sure that the depends are correct. We have packages
12 depending on libc, also.
13
14 --
15 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
16 Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64)
17
18 http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/libintl and virtual/iconv Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>