On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:23:55PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:06, Joel Baker wrote: > > * Package name : iconv > > It also > > provides a command-line interface via the 'iconv' program. > > In what ways is this iconv different from the iconv provided in the > libc6 package?
I expect there is very little, if any, difference; they're both GNU code, and I would be amazed if it were not simply duplicated. However, since none of the *BSD ports have GNU libc, and not all of them implement iconv() in a native fashion, it is necessary to have the package available. It can be limited to only those architectures which lack an implementation of iconv(), if it would cause problems; this is part of why I CC'ed the ITP to debian-devel. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
