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120130 Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> Do you even have LINGUAS set in /etc/make.conf or something? |
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> Because at least evince, gdk-pixbuf, xkeyboard-config and |
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> gnome-doc-utils DO honor LINGUAS. |
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> All GNOME packages that use intltool (that is pretty much everything |
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> except a few low-level libraries) honor LINGUAS much more than |
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> localepurge would ever be able clean afterwards. For example, .desktop |
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> files only have translation lines for languages listed in LINGUAS. Same |
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> for gconf and dconf schemas. Also all end-user documentation |
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> in /usr/share/gnome/help/appname/lang_code/ |
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> Per above, we would close at least 4 of those bugs as INVALID or at |
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> least OBSOLETE (if some older version had it wrong). |
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> At least in GNOME we feel quite strong about things properly honoring |
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> LINGUAS per old standard GNU conventions. This means installing ALL |
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> translations if LINGUAS is unset, and none if LINGUAS is set to an empty |
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> string. |
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> Above said, I also do find a use on some systems for localepurge, to |
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> catch the packages that don't honor it. |
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> Though for embedded deployments I might as well not include the |
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> non-interesting language directories in the image. |
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Thanks for the useful & polite response. I will look into LINGUAS. |
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How to set it is not mentioned in make.conf.example or in man make.conf : |
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where is it documented ? |
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