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 1Fh4rt-0003Vy-CH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 May 2006 13:18:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4JDFQgj018008; Fri, 19 May 2006 13:15:26 GMT Received: from relay10.cs.mcgill.ca (relay10.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.3.88]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4JD9FWg032624 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 13:09:15 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.cs.mcgill.ca [127.0.0.1]) by relay10.cs.mcgill.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A5F537113 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from relay10.cs.mcgill.ca ([132.206.3.88]) by localhost (hub.CS.McGill.CA [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03717-12 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from potus.CS.McGill.CA (tls.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.3.97]) by relay10.cs.mcgill.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFF653710E for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [132.206.2.111] (thor.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by potus.CS.McGill.CA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1118A1B0075 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <446DC374.7090300@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:08 -0400 From: Patrick McLean User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060502) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] et_EE locale and language of error messages References: <20060519124926.GA14551@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060519124926.GA14551@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.mcgill.ca X-Archives-Salt: b529ab6d-b7a4-4161-ac4a-b0a6028a92be X-Archives-Hash: feaf2e75030ca902c6f41705b803b342 > No, it's needlessly unfriendly to users, and encourages broken packages. > et_EE breakage should be fixed, and slowly but surely is, and as for > unreadable error messages, getting German gcc output in a German locale > is a feature, not a bug. It can indeed be a problem in bugreports, but > it's a much milder one, since it's trivial to look up what any > particular message is translated from. It's not trivial if you don't have the German locales installed. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list