packages that BuildRequire: gettext that need to change to gettext-devel

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 17:33 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> The whole contents of the gettext package are pretty much for
> developers-and-translators-only, so it doesn't seem like creating a
> 'gettext-devel' will win us much compared to the amount of work required.

It already exists, actually, which is why my patch in 126071 was so
simple...

> Adding a 'cvs' dependency to 'gettext' will upset a few people, but it's 
> really not that bad a thing.
>
> It looks like the main need for gettext outside of
> developers-and-translators may be using /bin/gettext from shell scripts -
> moving that file into a 'gettext-utils' subpackage might be an easier and
> less intrusive solution.

And then just make gettext-utils part of the base system?  It would seem
confusing to me to have gettext-utils, gettext, *and* gettext-devel...

> I looked at autopoint, and it should be reasonably easy to get rid of its
> use of CVS by doing a checkout from archive.tar.gz at package build time
> rather than runtime. 

That'd be cool.  Frankly gettext frightens me and I didn't want to even
try that :)

> Is autopoint even used at all?

Well, gstreamer uses it...
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