On Friday 06 May 2005 06:56 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 07 May 2005 00:46, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > can you explain why my previous solution of assuming libc provided NLS > > capabilities wasnt good enough ? > > And I don't like the idea of forcing into system gettext and libiconv, as > they aren't needed for *all* the software out there, you can still have > many packages without using them. I really needed to install them just for > glib2 initially, and I was having already a few packages installed for > example subversion.
i didnt mean force gettext since we already track that so much in ebuilds, but having something like 'nls? ( libiconv )' in a libc's PDEPEND doesnt seem like such a bad idea to me > And I'm in ideas of "the least, the better" wrt dependencies. so instead you suggest updating a crap ton of ebuilds with a bunch of libiconv DEPENDs ? -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
