Bug 252511 – sys-devel/gettext bundles a copy of libcroco

• Status: RESOLVED LATER
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-12-25 20:17:24 UTC]

* GNOME libcroco 0.6.1 or newer
  + Optional.
    Needed for the --color option of the various programs.
    If not present, a copy of libcroco-0.6.1 (included in this package) will
    be compiled into libgettextlib.
  + Homepage:
    http://www.freespiders.org/projects/libcroco/
  + Download:
    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libcroco/0.6/
  + If it is installed in a nonstandard directory, pass the option
    --with-libcroco-0.6-prefix=DIR to 'configure'.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2008-12-25 21:21:19 UTC]

please read the comments

    # --without-emacs: Emacs support is now in a separate package
    # --with-included-glib: glib depends on us so avoid circular deps
    # --with-included-libcroco: libcroco depends on glib which ... ^^^

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2010-06-07 21:53:36 UTC]

Since at least on Linux glib does not depend on gettext (at runtime) could we get this in? Or at least get it in linked to a build USE flag or something like that?

Thank you…

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2010-06-07 22:39:32 UTC]

USE=build implies that the circ dep only occurs during stage building which is not the case.  you can have a system without gettext or glib which means attempting to build them will fail.  so no, that is not an acceptable option.