Bug 222083

Summary:	>=dev-libs/atk-1.22.0 has unnecessary DEPEND on gettext
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lebarjack
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-05-14 14:11:48 UTC

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.

Comment 1 François Périchon 2010-03-02 21:06:22 UTC

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?

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2010-10-09 16:57:32 UTC

I would prefer other gnome team member's opinion before dropping this :-/

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-01-27 11:00:38 UTC

+  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.
+