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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:51:26
Message-Id: 4404711D.5000002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build? by Patrick Lauer
1 Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > this is an idea we had at FOSDEM to make bugreports easier to read:
5 >
6 > During build portage should change the locale to en_us so that any error
7 > messages are easy to read even if the user has set it differently. This
8 > shouldn't affect users much and could get rid of the bugreports where it
9 > is hard to understand what went wrong because everything is in french.
10 >
11 > Portage changes should be limited to setting LC_ALL in all subshells it
12 > spawns.
13 >
14 > Does this cause any unexpected problems? (Programs changing their
15 > language during build would be one possible side-effect). Is it
16 > needed/useful?
17 >
18 > Thanks for any feedback,
19
20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57973
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