Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: et_EE locale and language of error messages

["Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Harald van Dijk wrote:
> > [..] encourages broken packages.
> > et_EE breakage should be fixed, and slowly but surely is[..]
> 
> 
> That is your main problem here and I have discussed this in IRC with you and
> it is true in my opinion that it does not improve gentoo or make the
> distribution any better to close et_EE bugs as WONTFIX.
> 
> But the default should be C to make sure everyone can compile their system
> without an error, and if people want locale output and help with bugfixing
> they can of course enable it in their make.conf and keep the bugs coming :)
> 
> Also developers wont have to translate that often or ask for translations
> when the default locale is C. Developers are more likely to fix a bug
> quickly if they do not have to ask twice :)

Indeed, this is less than ideal, but not unacceptable to me :)
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