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On 06/18/2011 03:50 AM, walt wrote: |
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> On 06/16/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> On my personal |
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>> system, I only install the US-English locales because I know I'm never |
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>> going to use any of the others. |
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> Me too -- or maybe I should say "moi aussi". |
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> I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes |
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> of translation files in /usr/share/locale/* but I've never succeeded. |
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> ATM I have 101MB of *.mo translation files in /usr/share/locale even |
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> though I deleted all of them less than a month ago. |
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> I unset the 'nls' useflag in the hope it would solve the problem, but |
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> no joy. |
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Unfortunately, many ebuilds go ahead and install translation files |
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anyway. Developers seem to ignore this if a package only installs one |
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or two additional files. For example, see this patch I submitted once: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275980 |
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It's not the end of the world, but I guess what the devs are missing is |
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that one file here, one there, it adds up in the end. |
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