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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:14:26 +0100 |
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"Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o> wrote: |
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> This is an old issue, but I want to suggest a re-visit :) |
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> As we all know, setting LC_ALL and friends can cause all sorts of |
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> trouble in package builds. However, many users really appreciate |
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> being able to set it so that errors from the compiler etc are in their |
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> own language. |
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Actually most people I've talked to prefer to have buildsystem messages |
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in english even if the rest of their system is localized. Reasons |
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include: |
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- many users don't understand the messages anyway, so to them language |
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is irrelevant |
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- often the translations are harder to understand than the english |
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version (IMO) |
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- when reporting a bug or asking questions on forums/irc/lists/... |
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they'll usually need the english messages anyway |
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- when searching for error messages in bugzilla/google/... the english |
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version will usually get more and/or better results |
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So going with Mike I'd invert your proposal and have portage (un)set |
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LC_MESSAGES to get english buildsystem messages, e.g. by adding |
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export LC_MESSAGES=${PORTAGE_LC_MESSAGES:-en_US} |
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to ebuild.sh. |
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Marius |
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