Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] LC_ALL and friends in make.conf

[Ned Ludd]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:23 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 08 March 2007, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> > As we all know, setting LC_ALL and friends can cause all sorts of
> > trouble in package builds.  However, many users really appreciate
> > being able to set it so that errors from the compiler etc are in their
> > own language.
>
> we've fixed our documents so users should be setting LANG, not LC_ALL
>
> > It occurs to me that during emerge, only LC_MESSAGES is actually useful
> > for the user, to help interpret build errors.  LC_COLLATE and the
> > others don't give the user any benefit in the emerge process.
> >
> > So how about if LANG or LC_* are set, portage would set LC_MESSAGES and
> > clear the rest?
> >
> > Is there any real advantage to the user having LC_* set apart from
> > LC_MESSAGES?
>
> to answer the question directly, i think you're correct in that only
> LC_MESSAGES is a benefit to the user and screwing with the localization
> variables as suggested seems pretty sane
>
> hoooooooooooooooowever, ;)
> while i see the direction you're looking to go and the burdens you're looking
> to relieve, i think this just puts us back to the state that i disagree
> with ... namely that we shouldnt be ignoring these sort of problems, we
> should be fixing them

Seems a forced ignore would fix them. (problem solved! next bug..)

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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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