Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion to stop using 'cjk' USE flag.

[Masatomo Nakano]

Hi

> > 2) Make a variable LANG (in make.conf or rc.conf) and set it equal to
> > the language wanted.
>
> I see this variable more as a list of languages (other than
> english which would be default), by order of preference.
>
> It would be useful for several things:
>  - as you've said, it would make possible to apply language-specific
> patches
>  - some ebuilds could also have language-specific dependencies, like the
> i18n packages for kde (we could also add "app-i18n/manpages-lang" as a
> conditional dependency to "sys-apps/man-pages", etc.)
>  - it would also be a more explicit way to choose the language at
> compile time for packages such as openoffice
>  - it would allow ebuild "einfo" internationalisation
>
> The problem is that a new bash function should be provided by ebuild.sh
> to easily make some "switch to the best matching language" case-like
> constructs in ebuilds, but I don't think it is that difficult.

It's a nice idea but it's other issue because the suggestion I emailed
is not that we'll be able to select language for i18n applications.

We should think 'localization issue(enable to use one language)' and
'selection language for i18n applications' separately.

Thanks,
Masatomo Nakano

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