On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 06:19:30PM +0200, Gerald Holl wrote: > Are there any ways to get rsync with iconv support without building it > from source? And why was iconv support dropped from the rsync binary?
If you really think that's useful, we could add a flavor. It was dropped because rsync is a very basic port (usually one of the first things you install on a machine), and having it depending on iconv means it pulls the whole gnu thingies with it.