From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oegcf-0006YW-8b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:51:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B23B7E0AD7; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57356E0AC7 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg2 with SMTP id 2so483086pvg.40 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:50:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=lfMbEuM2pUZc5FUKjsepiETekhhgqWjab7Vnrh1aAx4=; b=AZQPZU0jMLMPRunLCjUrcFtDunX5yjlHwep1tnKxRXKr5J8SbpD6KyyA/gkvVAoalB H6akjTEeakUcBcOQBMoa8v5n94ykWY/N/9U9hQCyXjXE90eb8lFcYQH0xQuBFyCb5JVz i52uLCShtE9gMgbhTuGZPo2XrqT2ZyDaN5Gm0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=slBrbzhj/0nREuoFUIQgf3XOwwgPyv9iHHpntYIpiDrzI4sQAPBftXNiR0MsmSFmfi K922+OQmS1bvoLWZXN6/UgzC/j418LX/HVg5GgsBRIkGb9lLCw2oIgBLowSzylKjdQXH A+4TRpMMLXzTU/IeZUPsCFGO9tO2DR19S1UR8= Received: by 10.142.164.9 with SMTP id m9mr1058894wfe.295.1280461829846; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.gmail.com (c-67-171-128-62.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.171.128.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f2sm1912538wfp.11.2010.07.29.20.50.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.gmail.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:48:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:48:27 -0700 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Locale check in python_pkg_setup() Message-ID: <20100730034827.GC15031@hrair> References: <201007300116.43653.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4C5243C7.70709@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C5243C7.70709@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: c01c8cb0-eef2-49d7-b13c-0eb69259003c X-Archives-Hash: ac0508519b467acf63e8052cf4311fae --mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 05:15:19AM +0200, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > On 07/30/10 01:16, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > > + eerror "See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml for > > information on how to fix locale." >=20 > I'm with Brian on this one - my locale (C/POSIX) is not broken, it's the = code > that has bugs. Can you please change wording here to read something along= "... > for information on switching to Unicode locale." instead of suggesting th= at > users locale is broken. =46rom where I'm sitting, the only ebuild that has any business telling=20 me to change (or suggesting how) locale is glibc. Especially when=20 we're talking about a warning that will be in 7.6% of the versions in the tree. That's pretty freaking spammy... end result will be people switching=20 (for better or worse) to stop seeing the complaints. It's basically annoying people into changing to partially=20 sidestep a couple of bugs, instead of fixing the issue- and that's the=20 wrong course of action. ~brian --mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxSS4sACgkQsiLx3HvNzgdXNQCeI4bpGdWzdf16EEogypfyb11x ZsYAnArmdQAxFDNG2gddokKDodvR0xVQ =nLVF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mojUlQ0s9EVzWg2t--