[gentoo-dev] nls flag and gettext depend

[gentoo-dev] nls flag and gettext depend

[Arnaud Launay]

Hello,

I discussed this on the gentoo-user-fr list, and it has come that
it should be posted here.

I was working at xcave ebuild, and I have a classical nls conf:
IUSE="nls"
econf $(use_enable nls) || die "Error: econf failed!"

What has brought questions is the depend line:
DEPEND="nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"

In fact, gettext is not needed either for compiling (.po files
are pre-compiled) neither for running them. In most ebuilds using
nls, this depend line exists; either it shouldn't, and thus
removing it from non-needing ebuilds (for example, freetype-1 or
xine-lib), either it should be in dep or rdep. I can't find any
policy about this, nor anything on the lists.

	Arnaud.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] nls flag and gettext depend

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:00:47 +0200 Arnaud Launay <asl@launay.org> wrote:
| In fact, gettext is not needed either for compiling (.po files
| are pre-compiled) neither for running them. In most ebuilds using
| nls, this depend line exists; either it shouldn't, and thus
| removing it from non-needing ebuilds (for example, freetype-1 or
| xine-lib), either it should be in dep or rdep. I can't find any
| policy about this, nor anything on the lists.

This was discussed on -core a while back. A proper solution will be
available once the virtuals GLEP (or something like it) goes through.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: nls flag and gettext depend

[Arnaud Launay]

Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:18:57PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit:
> This was discussed on -core a while back. A proper solution will be
> available once the virtuals GLEP (or something like it) goes through.

Ok.
Err. Not Ok, -core archives don't seem to exist online :)

In the mean time, what is the proper way of doing it ? Not
including any gettext at all on deps ?

	Arnaud.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: nls flag and gettext depend

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Thursday 14 July 2005 00:43, Arnaud Launay wrote:
> In the mean time, what is the proper way of doing it ? Not
> including any gettext at all on deps ?
Add that to both DEPEND and RDEPEND in the mean time.
Pretty please from G/FBSD team :)

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[gentoo-dev] Re: nls flag and gettext depend

[Arnaud Launay]

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Le Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:51:41AM +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò a écrit:
> > In the mean time, what is the proper way of doing it ? Not
> > including any gettext at all on deps ?
> Add that to both DEPEND and RDEPEND in the mean time.

Noted (and archived here too, now)

> Pretty please from G/FBSD team :)

Hmm, libexif/libgphoto2 & co should be corrected too, then.

	Arnaud.
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