[gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build?

[Patrick Lauer]

Hi all,

this is an idea we had at FOSDEM to make bugreports easier to read:

During build portage should change the locale to en_us so that any error
messages are easy to read even if the user has set it differently. This
shouldn't affect users much and could get rid of the bugreports where it
is hard to understand what went wrong because everything is in french.

Portage changes should be limited to setting LC_ALL in all subshells it
spawns.

Does this cause any unexpected problems? (Programs changing their
language during build would be one possible side-effect). Is it
needed/useful?

Thanks for any feedback,

Patrick
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