diff --git a/package/base/acl/acl.conf b/package/base/acl/acl.conf
index eace343a1..63351eda6 100644
--- a/package/base/acl/acl.conf
+++ b/package/base/acl/acl.conf
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ makeinstopt="$makeinstopt install-dev install-lib"
 # only static libs go here
 var_append confopt ' ' "--libexecdir='$libdir'"
 
+# enable gettext support if possible
+pkginstalled gettext || var_append confopt ' ' "--enable-gettext=no"
+
 # coreutils is built with libacl
 libdir="$root/lib"
 
diff --git a/package/base/acl/acl.desc b/package/base/acl/acl.desc
index 5faa7f19b..c292a2c96 100644
--- a/package/base/acl/acl.desc
+++ b/package/base/acl/acl.desc
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
 [T] POSIX Access Control Lists are used to define more fine-grained
 [T] discretionary access rights for files and directories.
 
-[U] http://acl.bestbits.at/
-
 [A] Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@computer.org>
 [A] SGI XFS development team <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
 [M] Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>