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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Trimming the CVS "gdb" module
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:18:02 -0400
>>From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>>Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
>>
>>Can you describe the problem we're expecting to solve?
> 
> 
> The problem whereby it's impossible to have i18n support in GDB unless
> there's already gettext installed on the end-user system.

Are there any current GNU systems that have this problem?
Are there any current non-GNU systems have this problem?

Do the circumstances that lead to intl/ being bundled with all those 
other packages actually still exist?

Andrew

PS: Up to and including 6.2, GDB didn't even need intl/ yet it was 
bundling it.  It was an artifact inherited from the Cygnus tree.