Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

[Michael]

On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:40:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:16:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:59:35 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:53:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> > >
> > > > I see what you mean. I'm just remerging @world with -nls, but it
> > > > causes 95 rebuilds, including a lot of kde-frameworks packages,
> > > > so I've copied my packages directory in case your fear is borne
> > > > out. I'll let you know.
> > > >
> > >   I run with "-nls" in make.conf, but in package.use I throw in
> > >
> > > "media-fonts/* nls" in order to keep xfreecell happy.
> >
> > Good idea.
> >
> > Time will tell whether plasma has lost anything.
>
> I meant to add that the only Russian language file I pruned by setting -nls
> is /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.34/locale/ru. Binutils
> was remerged, so that one should have gone. Everything else is still there:
>
> # find / -xdev -name ru
> /usr/share/help/ru
> /usr/share/man/ru
> /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/europe/ru
> /usr/share/kf5/kdoctools/customization/ru
> /usr/share/kf5/locale/countries/ru
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sun_vndr/ru
> /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/media/icon-themes/cmd/ru
> /opt/zoom/timezones/ru
>
> I assume all those packages ignore language settings. That file /usr/share/
> help/ru belongs to kdoctools, which has just been remerged with -nls, so it
> is clearly guilty. Likewise kconfigwidgets and app-editors/joe, which both
> install /usr/share/man/ru.
>
> I can't evict espeak because two KDE PIM packages require it.

You can, unless you need speech-dispatcher.

$ grep espeak -r /etc/portage/
/etc/portage/package.use/espeak.use:app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher -
espeak


> Internationalisation has some way to go yet, it seems - or do I mean
> localisation?