Could we just have a couple of derivations? One gettext that depends on expat 
that gtk can use, and one minimal one for the common case?



> On Apr 2, 2015, at 12:27, Luca Bruno <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Gettext is currently depending only on libc. Gettext is an input to gcc,
> so that's a very important dependency. However gtk 3.16 now requires
> gettext to process xml files like glade files, and that requires xml
> support via expat.
> Gettext is currently compiled so that it finds expat with dlopen, but
> you know that means putting evil LD_LIBRARY_PATH I'd like to avoid.
> 
> Anybody knows any drawbacks about making gettext depend on expat? If
> not, I'm going to do the change for gettext 0.19 in the staging branch
> during the next days.
> 
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