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

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Jun 23 03:40:28 UTC 2004


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On Tuesday 22 June 2004 17:25, Chris Adams wrote:
> Why is gettext "essentially part of the base system"?  On my FC2 system,
> I see:
>
> kosh:40:~$ rpm -q --whatrequires gettext
> mutt-1.4.1-6
> kosh:41:~$
>
> That is an explicit "Requires: gettext" in mutt.spec, which may not be
> needed (I didn't investigate).

The above query only lists the packages that explicitly depend on gettext.  
Try using some of the files that gettext provides.  Frankly, not much 
'needs' gettext once installed, but I've ran into quite a few that require 
it during the build.

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