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

[Henning Heinold]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 05:06:11PM -0500, Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
> 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,
> ---
> Geoffrey
> 
Hi,

I suggest looking into this packages to see why they need gettext, maybee
they need special tools, which only gettext provides.

Bye,

Henning