Bug 28364 – glib requires gettext but is not listed as dependency

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Keith Edmunds 2003-09-10 10:14:11 UTC]

'gettext' is required for 'glib', but is not marked as a dependency.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-09-11 20:33:46 UTC]

gettext was listed in the default profile (default/packages) but not in the default-x86-1.4 profile (default-x86-1.4.packages), so we might need to start adding gettext dependencies

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-09-12 06:46:27 UTC]

needs to be looked at, maybe revamped gnome2 eclass material.

[Comment 3 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-09-16 17:45:42 UTC]

well there's two cases, one where the application always wants gettext/nls support, and one where gettext/nls is optional. in the first case we'd need a newdepend for gettext, but for the second case we'd need an optional newdepend, something along the lines of 

use nls && newdepend "sys-devel/gettext"

but for the majority of cases i'd imagine gettext would get installed somewhere along the line.

[Comment 4 bc 2003-09-20 21:36:34 UTC]

there is no way to build glib-2.2.3 without gettext installed
so gettext is a mandatory packaged that need to be added to DEPEND
unless glib is modified

[Comment 5 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-10-12 23:49:46 UTC]

fixed now, thanks for report.