On 2011-09-03 13:38, Marc Espie wrote: > 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.
At least for me it would be very useful to have rsync with iconv support. Especially as I'm doing backups and syncs across different OS platforms iconv is pretty beneficial. Gerald
