dev-libs/atk depends on gettext, but it build fine without it. Needs double-checking and removal if that's the case (with a comment why it's not necessary). I believe the reason it worked fine is either that it ships .gmo files with the tarball, or that it just won't install any translations if gettext binaries aren't present. If it's the former, then we can just remove the DEPEND (but I didn't get any .mo files installed, but as it's embedded here, maybe I shouldn't have - LINGUAS is unset though); if it's the latter, we can tuck is behind a USE=nls flag to make iconv challenged small footprint uclibc systems happy. This is meant mostly as a reminder to myself to check at a later date, but feel free to get to it before, I'd be happy.
I built atk (1.28, if it does matter) with and without gettext. I can confirm it builds cleanly without gettext, the only difference being the installation of the .mo files, as indicated. How can we determine if it's the gmo shipped with the package or if it just omit the translations?
I would prefer other gnome team member's opinion before dropping this :-/
+ 27 Jan 2011; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> atk-1.32.0.ebuild: + Put sys-devel/gettext dependency behind 'nls' USE flag as it's only needed + for translations as confirmed by me. Thanks a lot to Leio for noticing in bug + #222083. +
