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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig-nospam AT bigpond.net.au>:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:32, Adam Clark wrote:
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > Does anybody know what the rationale was to make gettext a required
> > component of SMGL?  Glibc certainly builds and installs fine without
> > it... some other spells need to have configure options passed along to
> > them to disable nls if gettext doesn't exist, but if I don't want nls
> > support on my system, why is SMGL forcing me to have it?  For me, it
> > just wastes disk space and memory.
> >
> > Any chance we could make gettext optional?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Adam
> 
> sounds like a good idea.
> WIth Andrew's great work on prometheus, removing gettext and finding out 
> what
> 
> needs nls disabled could now be done relatively easily.
> Maybe this could be a goal for the grimoire team's roadmap ? 

I think it'd be great to get all of our dependencies correct (and thanks to
Prometheus we're much closer than we ever were. ;)) so that we can correctly
have only what we need installed, nothing more, for the initial install.

-sandalle

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