[oe] DEPENDS="gettext" vs. DEPENDS="virtual/libintl"

[Geoffrey Wossum]

Hi all,

I'm working on exorcizing gettext as a requirement for building OE.  Since 
glib-2.0 absolutely has to have libintl, I've found an alternate way of 
providing.  uClibc's libintl stub has a pretty bad case of bitrot, but I 
found proxy-libintl, which was written to get GNOME onto Windows.  By setting 
proxy-libintl up as the PREFERRED_PROVIDER for virtual/libintl, I can get 
past glib-2.0 now.

The problem now is that some packages explicitly list "gettext" in their 
DEPENDS.  Is this just legacy from before virtual/libintl was created?  Is 
there any reason why these can't all be changed to "virtual/libintl"?

TIA,
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Geoffrey