From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RrprY-0000jw-9R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:57:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2EE2E0995; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85F8E077E; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897B52EA00B; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:56:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RNPUPwKf1Mqd; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:56:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (unknown [216.99.62.38]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id F2F492EA191; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:56:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:56:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:56:08 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge Message-ID: <20120130115608.GC3436@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Gentoo User References: <1327757384.3757.12.camel@belkin4> <201201281557.34414.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120129050150.GB3139@ca.inter.net> <201201291409.58116.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120130091901.GA3436@ca.inter.net> <1327915977.30159.8.camel@daedalus.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1327915977.30159.8.camel@daedalus.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: be467113-9f45-43bb-bcf9-01bdd5902891 X-Archives-Hash: 09b57fa64bcdaac104bb10efcdf382c7 120130 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Do you even have LINGUAS set in /etc/make.conf or something? > Because at least evince, gdk-pixbuf, xkeyboard-config and > gnome-doc-utils DO honor LINGUAS. > > All GNOME packages that use intltool (that is pretty much everything > except a few low-level libraries) honor LINGUAS much more than > localepurge would ever be able clean afterwards. For example, .desktop > files only have translation lines for languages listed in LINGUAS. Same > for gconf and dconf schemas. Also all end-user documentation > in /usr/share/gnome/help/appname/lang_code/ > > Per above, we would close at least 4 of those bugs as INVALID or at > least OBSOLETE (if some older version had it wrong). > At least in GNOME we feel quite strong about things properly honoring > LINGUAS per old standard GNU conventions. This means installing ALL > translations if LINGUAS is unset, and none if LINGUAS is set to an empty > string. > > Above said, I also do find a use on some systems for localepurge, to > catch the packages that don't honor it. > Though for embedded deployments I might as well not include the > non-interesting language directories in the image. Thanks for the useful & polite response. I will look into LINGUAS. How to set it is not mentioned in make.conf.example or in man make.conf : where is it documented ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca