| Summary: | app-admin/sysstat has gettext as RDEPEND | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Aaron Walker (RETIRED) <ka0ttic> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | alt, qa |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
done |
The ebuild in summary has a runtime dependency over gettext. gettext is normally used only as build-time dependency to create the po files in nls-enabled packages. A part from development tools, the only case when gettext is needed as runtime dependency is when the system c library does not provide intl functions. For this reason the right way to state the dependencies for nls-enabled packages is: RDEPEND="nls? ( virtual/libintl ) ...." DEPEND="${RDEPEND} nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )" this way libintl takes care of adding the dependency when needed and gettext is required only at build time. Thanks, Diego