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