[gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling locale at emerge output

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:31:30 +0200
Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
> I am quite getting annoyed by bugzilla attached outputs in various
> interesting languages like Portugalese or French. I can read Russian so
> that is at least bit ok :)
> 
> I can understand that it might be nice to user to see these messages in
> their native language, but it gets hell annoying when we have to figure
> out wtf is going on with their build when they attach it to the bug.
> 
> So I would like portage to filter/set environment the way it is always
> English.
> 
> Opinions?

You want to force English on all our users because you can't be bothered to
ask a reporter to repost an error message using LC_ALL=C?

For a growing portion of our user base it's not "nice" to see these messages
in their native language, it's fucking "necessary".


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