ports/65887: mutt and mutt-devel can silently depend on libiconv

[Udo Schweigert]

The following reply was made to PR ports/65887; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Udo Schweigert <Udo.Schweigert at siemens.com>
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc: Udo Schweigert <Udo.Schweigert at siemens.com>,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/65887: mutt and mutt-devel can silently depend on libiconv
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:55:13 +0200

 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 18:49:19 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Udo Schweigert wrote:
 >> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 17:32:57 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > >>>Fix:
 > >> 	An easy way is to add ``USE_ICONV=yes'' to the mutt Makefiles.
 > >> 	A harder approach is to implement conditional dependencies
 > >> 	within the ports framework, that is to let ports tell,
 > >> 	"I could use the port foo if it were installed already;
 > >> 	never mind otherwise."
 >> 
 >> One could also choose to use the --disable-iconv option of mutt's configure.
 > 
 > By itself it's more to amputation than to a solution :-)
 > Mutt's using libiconv is a valuable feature for users whose native
 > alphabet falls beyond Latin-1.  And specifying --disable-iconv would
 > inhibit mutt from using libiconv even if it is installed. 
 
 Isn't that a contradiction to WITHOUT_NLS?
 
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