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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:44:32 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r341775 - in head: Mk/Uses converters/libiconv devel/gettext
Message-ID:  <52E97640.5020703@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201401292024.s0TKOomF031237@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201401292024.s0TKOomF031237@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 30.01.2014 0:24, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>   - Add two new arguments to USES=iconv so ports can indicate they use GNU
>     iconv extensions that the base system iconv doesn't support yet:
>     * wchar_t: port uses the special WCHAR_T character conversion.
>     * translit: port uses //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE conversion options.
>     Adding one or both of these arguments makes the port depend on
>     converters/libiconv for now.
>   - Allow installation of converters/libiconv on FreeBSD 10+.

Delete-restore loop.
What people smoke, replacing gnu iconv with system one without even
implementing //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE first?
At this stage looks more logical to implement them in the system iconv,
rather than to return gnu one back.




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