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

[Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:10:55 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I _am_ arguing for non-English user's rights.  That's the whole
> reason I'm here, annoying you and whatnot.

Great, now we're getting somewhere.

> See, you're thinking primarily in terms of bugzilla.  Like the only
> reason someone would want to see this stuff is to paste it to a bug
> report for a developer to look at.  I'm saying someone who doesn't
> speak English at all (who won't be filing bugs btw) might want to be
> able to understand the error the compiler just dumped on them without
> needing a translator.

I countered that with the argument that if users cannot read "No such
file or directory" then they cannot read "ERROR: app-arch/rpm-4.4.6-r7
failed (compile phase)" either. How does that work?

> But whatever, I appear to be the only person who has a problem with
> this.

But you just said "I _am_ arguing for non-English user's rights"! :-)


     jer