On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Arnd Hanses wrote:
> I think the OpenBSD-port should only use the native catgets, because
> this has been security audited and is confirmed to work. GNU gettext
> is messy, has potential security leaks and doesn't fit well into the
> system, IMHO. It might even jeopardize the tight overall system
> security. So it should never be used on any *BSD system.
Have you patched LyX or any other software to use native catgets? In my
system (FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE) I have gettext-0.10.35 installed because it
is required by GNU make and wget, but LyX is statically linked to the
included gettext.
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