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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:20:24 -0400
From:      Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/irc/xchat-devel Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20010602222024.B88876@cartman.boston.geekhouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010602133735.E65146@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 at 13:37:35 -0500, Ade Lovett wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:39:13AM -0700, Jim Mock wrote:
> >   Update to version 1.7.6.  The big change here is that NLS is
> >   disabled until we get gettext 0.10.38 into the tree since this
> >   port now needs it for NLS support.
> 
> We're looking at this.  It will probably involve some kind of
> USE_GETTEXT knob (=old,new -- whatever), since there are a significant
> number of ports that will break if we simply update devel/gettext.

Yeah, I was following the discussion on -ports.

> The best solution for now would probably be to repo-copy devel/gettext
> to devel/gettext-new, add in the knobs, removing explicity
> dependencies on devel/gettext throughout the tree, turn on the knobs,
> move ports as appropriate, and when a significant proportion have been
> updated to use 0.10.38, switch devel/gettext-new to devel/gettext,
> repo-copy devel/gettext to devel/gettext-old, fix up the USE_GETTEXT
> knobs, and then (eventually) remove devel/gettext-old.

That's probably the most painless way of doing it at this point.

- jim

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