Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

[Ryan Sims]

On 12/13/06, Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> wrote:
>
>  Ryan Sims wrote:
>
> I noticed while updating to Gnome 2.16 today that gnome2-user-docs
> took a long time (38 min +), and most of that time was spend on
> versions of the documents in languages I don't speak.  After trying a
> few things, I found that disabling the nls use flag in scrollkeeper
> reduced the gnome2-user-docs compile down to under a minute.
>
> It got me thinking...I speak only English, my fiancee speaks English
> (well, and some French, but she doesn't need our computer to), so I
> thought, hm, is nls support needed *anywhere?*
> So I disabled the use flag globally to test, and discovered probably
> 30 packages that want to be rebuilt, from glibc to vim to coreutils to
> audacious.
>
> If I only need a monoglot computer, would I break anything by
> disabling nls support?
>
>  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
>
> This is the part that matters:
>
>  There is also additional localisation variable called LINGUAS, which
> affects to localisation files that get installed in gettext-based programs,
> and decides used localisation for some specific software packages, such as
> kde-base/kde-i18n and app-office/openoffice. The variable takes in space-separated
> list of language codes, and suggested place to set it is /etc/make.conf:
>
> Code Listing 3.5: Setting LINGUAS in make.conf
>
> # nano -w /etc/make.conf(Add in the LINGUAS variable. For instance,
> for German, Finnish and English:)
> LINGUAS="de fi en"
>
>
>
> I think that will help you.  I have -nls in mine too.  So both should not
> hurt anything.
>
> Hope that helps.
>

Thanks.  I do have my LINGUAS variable set to "en," but as I understand
it[1], the LINGUAS variable is expanded to use flags, so ebuilds that don't
use those flags wont respect LINGUAS, is that correct?

[1]http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/linguas/index.html

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Ryan W Sims