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Ed, |
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16:06PM +0100, Ed W wrote: |
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> Can someone please explain why the default has switched to |
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> USE="-nls"? What implications does this hold for people upgrading? |
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> (Should I remove gettext at the end?) |
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I don't know why it was dropped (other than probably removing a |
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dependency that is often not used or needed on a locked down server), |
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but dropping the native language support USE flag would cause upgraded |
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and newly installed packages to no longer provide support for multiple |
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languages (I don't know enough about gettext to know if packages that do |
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not enable it only provide the original language used in the the source |
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or not, and I've always removed the nls flag myself). |
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If you want to remove all support for it from your system now (as well |
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as for any other changed USE flags), do something like `emerge -av |
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- --newuse --update --deep world` followed by `emerge -pv --depclean` to |
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see which non-world, non-system packages would be cleaned (and removing |
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the -p if the list is acceptable). |
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If you want to remove just gettext, you could use `equery d gettext` to |
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see what depends on it and revdep-rebuild to rebuild just those packages |
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that link to its library. |
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If you aren't worried about having NLS support still enabled in some |
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installed packages and gettext installed, just let upgrades slowly drop |
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the nls flag. |
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