Description of problem:
In F37 we moved the gettext runtime programs to gettext-runtime.
So assuming if fontconfig-devel does not require any translation
management tools (like msgcat or xgettext) at runtime,
it should be possible for it to only Requires: gettext-runtime
(instead of gettext). The goal here is only to install
gettext-runtime in the Fedora live image(s), etc.
Additional info:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GettextRuntimeSubpackage
Sorry, I totally missed this.
Well, The dependency of gettext in fontconfig-devel is to make sure for those who want to use fontconfig.its and fontconfig.loc through msg* command to generate a PO file from xml-based fontconfig configuration files. I could update it to the weak dependency perhaps since gettext binaries isn't necessary required to use any devel files in fontconfig. that being said, updating the dependency to gettext-runtime sounds a bit far from the purpose of this dependency. any thoughts?