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 1Fisry-00042E-P5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 12:53:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4OCr07h014955; Wed, 24 May 2006 12:53:00 GMT Received: from MIUMMR0MT05.um.ced.h3g.it ([62.13.171.111]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4OCnB6x006961 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 12:49:11 GMT Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (miumgu0vp03.um.ced.h3g.it [10.216.57.163]) by MIUMMR0MT05.um.ced.h3g.it (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id AOA60374; Wed, 24 May 2006 14:49:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:58:05 +0200 From: "Kevin F. Quinn" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] et_EE locale and language of error messages Message-ID: <20060524145805.3f0627d8@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <20060524111753.GA30225@gentoo.org> References: <20060524123617.0f390a5a@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <20060524111753.GA30225@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_RWifS1Yqo8Zf4_tIonThgsd; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 1d66273d-6785-4744-97f2-f1068ec2c218 X-Archives-Hash: 96323544fe68a17353a4580d891fc20d --Sig_RWifS1Yqo8Zf4_tIonThgsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 24 May 2006 13:17:54 +0200 Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: > 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. Thanks for the clarification - I only looked through the gnu libc info pages for it (since we had been talking about locales) so I didn't find it. > 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.) Fair enough. =20 --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_RWifS1Yqo8Zf4_tIonThgsd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdFhe9G2S8dekcG0RAltnAJ4mTmapeQUamGH/xqKlRQbyBRoXJACgjmRA BQNAH32OGi8KkWSS719cxTA= =r9qa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_RWifS1Yqo8Zf4_tIonThgsd-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list