Why does gettext require curses?

Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybounce at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 10:55:25 PDT 2009


Why does gettext -- a library dealing with looking up translation
strings in a database -- need ncurses -- a library for displaying text
on terminal screens?

Can this dependency be removed? It seems very, very odd.


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