From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages/build systems not honoring LINGUAS and a sane solution
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120220140031.5d5dc74d@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20120217215806.GH23655@wloczykij
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:58:06 +0100
Piotr Szymaniak <szarpaj@grubelek.pl> wrote:
> localepurge will be removed from portage [1]. As I was (/am) heavy
> user of it I found it funny that "linguas takes care of the proper
> locale installation" [2]. Maybe it should, but there's some major
> failure in lots of packages.
I don't think we should drop it unless there's a reason to. It works fine
and people obviously use it (me too!).
> So I filled few dozen bugs about this, but it's not always an easy task
> to make a package respect LINGUAS. As we talked about it on #gentoo-bugs
> there were few suggestions to solve this issue.
>
> Not directly related to solving, but will help (by ssuominen):
> make a tracker bug for offending packages
Yes, please. Once these get fixed then we can drop localepurge. And please
ignore hyperactive bug wranglers who think they get to decide when you've
filed "enough" bugs. We want these reports.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 21:58 [gentoo-dev] Packages/build systems not honoring LINGUAS and a sane solution Piotr Szymaniak
2012-02-17 23:05 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-02-20 20:00 ` Ryan Hill [this message]
2012-02-20 21:26 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-02-20 23:16 ` Alec Warner
2012-02-24 8:14 ` Piotr Szymaniak
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