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

[Kevin F. Quinn]

This is an old issue, but I want to suggest a re-visit :)

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.

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?

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Kevin F. Quinn