Unstated dependencies on gettext

[Kevin Ballard]

After having updated gettext, I'm finding a number of ports that are  
linking against libintl (provided by gettext) but don't declare a  
dependency on gettext.

For example, gsed links against libiconv, but doesn't declare a  
dependency on gettext.

The question I have is, would some of these ports have worked if  
gettext wasn't installed, but just happen to link against libintl for  
extra functionality if it's there? I don't want to go adding gettext  
dependencies all over the place if it's not strictly needed, but on  
the other hand I'd like to be able to look up all ports that link  
against gettext, since upgrading it changed the major version number  
(actually, only version number) of the library and so everything has  
to re-link.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
eridius at macports.org
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