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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:49:20 -0400 (EDT) |
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Weeve <weeve@g.o> wrote: |
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> 2) Make a variable LANG (in make.conf or rc.conf) and set it equal to |
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> the language wanted. |
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I see this variable more as a list of languages (other than |
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english which would be default), by order of preference. |
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It would be useful for several things: |
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- as you've said, it would make possible to apply language-specific |
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patches |
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- some ebuilds could also have language-specific dependencies, like the |
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i18n packages for kde (we could also add "app-i18n/manpages-lang" as a |
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conditional dependency to "sys-apps/man-pages", etc.) |
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- it would also be a more explicit way to choose the language at |
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compile time for packages such as openoffice |
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- it would allow ebuild "einfo" internationalisation |
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The problem is that a new bash function should be provided by ebuild.sh |
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to easily make some "switch to the best matching language" case-like |
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constructs in ebuilds, but I don't think it is that difficult. |
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TGL. |
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