On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 02:35:09PM +0200, Gerald Holl wrote: > On 2011-09-03 13:38, 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. > > At least for me it would be very useful to have rsync with iconv > support. Especially as I'm doing backups and syncs across different OS > platforms iconv is pretty beneficial.
I hear you. There's no an iconv FLAVOR of rsync in current, it's been hooked to the build, so when post-5.0 snapshots resume, it will be there.
