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 1QKM3f-000113-DT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 02:55:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF6FB1C069; Thu, 12 May 2011 02:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC481C069 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 02:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3E77D8025 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 18:53:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KJ30E+lu0nfv for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 18:53:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.4] (wombat.kutulu.org [192.168.69.4]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CD97D8024 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 18:53:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DCB4B98.6050604@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 22:53:12 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? References: <4DC9B435.9010308@gmail.com> <4DCAFC4F.1080404@kutulu.org> <201105120031.45768.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201105120031.45768.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5cce7250481ebe340652f8e6d7f6216c On 5/11/2011 7:31 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 11 May 2011 22:14:55 Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> The only problem with LC_ALL is that it overrides all of the other LC_* >> variables. > > - which is precisely what most ordinary desktop users want. In such a case it's > a useful shorthand. Personally, I have no intention of ever allowing US > "English" to pollute any of my boxes (no offence meant to anyone here), so > LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" suits me (so far - until I trip over something!). That was actually my point. I set LC_ALL in 02locale on my workstations/laptops, and so far I haven't had any need to change it. IMO, LC_ALL makes much more sense than LANG for the "catch-all LC_* variable name" so that's what I use. On a multi-user box, I would probably make a different choice. --Mike