On 4/15/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As far as the intltool dependency, I can't ever figure out if
> packages will use an on-board copy, or if they always just fall
> back to the included copy. I never install intltool anymore, as
> it simply isn't required to build anything. Packages nowadays
> seem to include it if they need it. I haven't installed it since
> I can remember, and everything works just fine without it.
> Including all of GNOME.

I'm pretty sure intltool itself isn't used at all. It's like the
autotools. Intltool is used to generate the intltool-* files in the
source tree. From there, all that's need is perl + XML-Parser to
actually do the work. Whatever that is.

I haven't been installing intltool for quite a while now, either. The
only time I really needed it was when I needed to regenerate the
autotools for a gnome package. And then gnome-common is needed to
provide gnome-autogen.sh, too.

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Dan
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