On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 06:19:30PM +0200, Gerald Holl wrote: > > Are there any ways to get rsync with iconv support without building it > > from source? And why was iconv support dropped from the rsync binary? > > If you really think that's useful, we could add a flavor. > > It was dropped because rsync is a very basic port (usually one of the first > things you install on a machine), and having it depending on iconv means > it pulls the whole gnu thingies with it.
I think it is ok to depend on libiconv, it doesn't really bring anything else. Just an opinion... -- Antoine
