On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 17:33 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote: > The whole contents of the gettext package are pretty much for > developers-and-translators-only, so it doesn't seem like creating a > 'gettext-devel' will win us much compared to the amount of work required. It already exists, actually, which is why my patch in 126071 was so simple... > Adding a 'cvs' dependency to 'gettext' will upset a few people, but it's > really not that bad a thing. > > It looks like the main need for gettext outside of > developers-and-translators may be using /bin/gettext from shell scripts - > moving that file into a 'gettext-utils' subpackage might be an easier and > less intrusive solution. And then just make gettext-utils part of the base system? It would seem confusing to me to have gettext-utils, gettext, *and* gettext-devel... > I looked at autopoint, and it should be reasonably easy to get rid of its > use of CVS by doing a checkout from archive.tar.gz at package build time > rather than runtime. That'd be cool. Frankly gettext frightens me and I didn't want to even try that :) > Is autopoint even used at all? Well, gstreamer uses it...
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