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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

As an excercise for my own personal amusement and system requirement, I have 
been working on trying to make gettext an optional dependency in the 
grimoires, but I have reached a stopping point for me.  I was able to modify 
several spells and get the packages to compile and work (AFAICT) correctly 
w/o gettext.  My stopping points are at glib2 and orbit and pretty much 
anything depending them.

I do currently have a fairly functional system w/xorg and several window 
managers (including AfterStep and WindowMaker) installed and running.  It 
seems, however, that any GTK+ or GTK+2 based app (anything GNOME or 
Enlightenment, for example) will need to have gettext installed.  For anyone 
who has a CLI only system or a minimal windowing system and who is not 
interested in having gettext on their system, it is possible.  Also, our 
basesystem does not /need/ gettext.

I haven't ventured into the Qt/KDE area to see how possible it would be to 
have a gettext free system

My question at this point is, is this anything anyone is interested in?  I 
know we frequenlty quote the "Coice is good" creedo, but if no one is really 
interested in this particular choice, then I won't bother with submitting 
updated spells, nor continuing to see if there is anything else that may 
optionally depend on gettext.


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Jason Flatt (jason @ flattfamily . com)
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