Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] default bashrc value suggestion

[Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>]

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On 27/07/13 08:09 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
> Hi, list!
> 
> Many times somebody post buildlogs — they're translated to user's native
> language due to system's /etc/env.d/02locale.
> 
> What about adding "export LC_ALL=POSIX" (or, at least, LC_MESSAGES) to
> /etc/portage/bashrc by default (out-of-the-box)? That'll 1) fix
> buildlogs issue

This doesn't seem like a major problem. Most errors can be easily
deciphered, and if they can't, the user can be asked to run
"LC_MESSAGES=C emerge".

This also introduces a usability problem, in that a user's preference is
being overridden. Presumably the user knows that they want their system
in a particular language more than we do.

> 2) fix some python-related compilation breakages, like
> in xen-tools-4.3.0, for example.

This is just papering over the actual issue that needs to be fixed.


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