Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:15:24
Message-Id: 200602281106.16842.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build? by Patrick Lauer
1 On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:55, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > During build portage should change the locale to en_us
3
4 no, C would be a saner setting
5
6 > 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 i'm not sure how this would affect the build process ... it would for sure
12 mask mistakes in ebuild/packages that assume certain things about the active
13 local when using character classes in regular expressions
14 -mike
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