From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FirQT-00018g-7F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 11:21:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4OBL703013320; Wed, 24 May 2006 11:21:07 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4OBI1LZ014327 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 11:18:02 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE3264352 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 11:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29199-12 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 11:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (unknown [84.29.235.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B4B64307 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 11:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:17:54 +0200 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] et_EE locale and language of error messages Message-ID: <20060524111753.GA30225@gentoo.org> References: <20060524123617.0f390a5a@c1358217.kevquinn.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060524123617.0f390a5a@c1358217.kevquinn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.259 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.706, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=2.046] X-Spam-Score: -1.259 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 203985ff-2728-4bbd-8427-97dd84f181f1 X-Archives-Hash: 231f2381d0932906682216e0ba6c1b10 On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:36:17PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Fri, 19 May 2006 11:38:06 +0200 > Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > One problem could be that packages depend on LC_* to install the > > correct language. But that is a real bug then in my opinion, because > > ebuilds should only honour LINGUAS and not LC_* during build time. > > Those bugs should be detected and fixed. > > I disagree. LINGUAS is a Gentoo-specific thing, so is only relevant to > ebuilds. If a package uses LC_* to determine the user's locale > preferences, I see no problem with that. LINGUAS is not Gentoo-specific at all. Gentoo didn't even come up with it. It's a gettext variable, which is re-used (with an annoyingly slightly different meaning) by Gentoo. That said, if a package can only install one translation at a time, and it detects this at compile-time via LC_*, it's sort of braindead at least. (A creates a package for B. B would like the Italian version. A does not know any Italian. There is a build error. Because the system forced LC_* to be set to Italian, A has no idea what the errors mean.) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list