Shawn Walker wrote:

> On 02/01/12 20:29, Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
> >i just got bitten by this bug:
> >
> >https://cr.opensolaris.org/action/browse/pkg/edp/pkg.msgfmt/webrev
> >7141446 developer/opensolaris/pkg5 missing dependency on text/locale
> 
> I have a hard time believing that some other package on the system
> shouldn't have a dependency on this instead of us.  It doesn't seem
> like a package that's solely needed for development.

That's possible, but it doesn't mean that we don't also have a direct
dependency on it that needs to be expressed.

> So before adding it to ours, I'd like to see why *nothing* else on
> the system has a require dependency on it (which seems very
> suspicious).

Probably because the way it's used is by shell scripts calling gettxt,
which would have to be a manually-added dependency.

On the other hand, it seems most things use gettext, which is delivered in
core-os.

Danek
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