Bug 398981

Summary:	sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r4.ebuild: should probably not RDEPEND on sys-devel/gettext
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maxim Kammerer <mk>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Maxim Kammerer 2012-01-15 13:17:59 UTC

glibc has gettext in both DEPEND and RDEPEND. However, the point of libintl is that glibc implements the gettext API, no? A glibc-based system without gettext works fine, and glibc has no scripts that could call gettext binaries:

# egrep '(msgen|msgattrib|msgfilter|gettext.sh|gettextize|recode-sr-latin|msgcomm|msgconv|msgexec|msggrep|msginit|msguniq|msgcat|msgcmp|msgfmt|gmsgfmt|envsubst|autopoint|ngettext|xgettext|msgmerge|msgunfmt)' `qlist -e glibc| g bin/`
# egrep gettext `qlist -e glibc| g bin/`Binary file /usr/bin/lddlibc4 matches
Binary file /usr/bin/iconv matches
Binary file /usr/bin/sprof matches
Binary file /usr/bin/getconf matches
Binary file /usr/bin/gencat matches
Binary file /usr/bin/getent matches
Binary file /usr/bin/locale matches
Binary file /usr/bin/pcprofiledump matches
Binary file /usr/bin/rpcgen matches
Binary file /usr/bin/localedef matches
Binary file /usr/sbin/nscd matches
Binary file /usr/sbin/rpcinfo matches
Binary file /usr/sbin/iconvconfig matches

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-01-17 23:36:08 UTC

was first added to the 2.2.1-r1 ebuild, but with no documentation as to why:
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.2.1-r1.ebuild?revision=1.2

the only reason i could guess is that the gettext programs are used to generate .mo files which glibc itself will read for localization

i'm inclined to delete it from both DEPEND and RDEPEND

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-01-17 23:52:17 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Drop gettext dep (cannot think of a reason for it), and drop USE=nls since the --disable-nls flag has not been in the glibc source for quite some time
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/src_compile.eblit?r1=1.22&r2=1.23
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3.ebuild?r1=1.12&r2=1.13
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.10.1-r1.ebuild?r1=1.19&r2=1.20
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.11.3.ebuild?r1=1.10&r2=1.11
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.12.1-r3.ebuild?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.12.2.ebuild?r1=1.13&r2=1.14
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.13-r2.ebuild?r1=1.9&r2=1.10
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.13-r4.ebuild?r1=1.10&r2=1.11
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.14.1-r1.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.14.1-r2.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.14.1.ebuild?r1=1.4&r2=1.5
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.14.ebuild?r1=1.13&r2=1.14
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.15.ebuild?r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-9999.ebuild?r1=1.4&r2=1.5