move intltool to BLFS

[Xi Ruoyao]

It seems intltool is not needed by any LFS package. We can move it to BLFS.

A list of BLFS packages depending on intltool can be retrieved from ​56605b904c9ec85e0994403b5d27b263f2751ec0. Things may have changed in these years though.

[pierre]

Files referencing intltool before removal (excluding archive)

[pierre]

Files in archive referencing intltool before removal

[pierre]

Using the parent of commit ​56605b904, I've grep'ed for "xref.*intltool", first, excluding the archive directory, then only in the archive directory (because some of those packages have been "resurrected" since 2014). The result is in the two attached files.

Note that now, all users of meson should use only gettext. So the number of packages needing intltool should be much lower.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Until this is added to BLFS and all the packages that need it have their dependency updated, it can't be removed from LFS. The package is less than 0.1 SBU (1 second on my system) and takes 1.3 MB.

LFS is not designed to be a minimal system.

If no one steps up to add it to BLFS in the next few weeks I will mark it 'wontfix'.

[ken@…]

Looking at Arch, ​https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/intltool/ which obviously covers more than we include in BLFS but is probably up to date, there are a lot of desktop packages which need this. Clearly some of them in BLFS can pick it up from an earlier dependency, but getting it right looks like a lot of work for minimal initial gain.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Won't fix. More effort than it is worth.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Reopen as the most (if not all) work at BLFS side is done at ​https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/changeset/f954995766705e551cbcf1273a61e2b59eb44fd3.

[thomas]

gnome-icon-theme needs intltool, too.