Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Disabling locale at emerge output

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:14:28 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:

> >>>>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Serkan Kaba wrote:
>
> > On 25-04-2011 00:55, Duncan wrote:
> >> 1) FEATURES=locale would be off by default, so portage would build
> >> with POSIX locale by default.
> > Will this feature effect the whole build process? This might cause
> > locale dependent bugs (such as difference of capitalizations in
> > Turkish or different letter order in some locales causing grep
> > matches to fail) to go unnoticed.
>
> Worse, for some packages, POSIX locale will cause the build process to
> fail. See bug 343721 for an example.

Not if we only (literally) fixed LC_MESSAGES, I should think. Or do we
have packages that screen-scrape error messages?


     jer