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On 11/26/2011 07:32 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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>> Can anyone explain what is going on ? |
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> Different packages include different levels of support for filtering |
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> their installed localization messages, typically one of "install |
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> everything", "install what's requested", or "whats a locale?" |
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> The reason you mostly have files under LC_MESSAGES is because that's 99% |
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> of what is needed to localize a package. The files in there are string |
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> resource packages, translations of the strings used by the program, |
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> which are picked up by the localization library (gettext) automatically |
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> based on your locale settings. (coreutils installs file into LC_TIME for |
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> locales with date/time formatting requirements; I don't think I've ever |
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> seen any other locale files.) |
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> The standard way to inform a package which languages you want is to set |
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> your LINGUAS variable in /etc/make.conf to the locale name(s) you want |
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> installed (without the charset specifier). LINGUAS works like any other |
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> portage expansion variables: for those packages that support it, you get |
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> a set of USE-flag-like language keywords set on build. (LINGUAS is the |
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> well-known environment variable used by most autotools-based packages to |
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> select languages, but portage provides support above and beyond that.) |
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> Unfortunately, proper locale support is spotty -- mostly due to upstream |
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> maintainers being too lazy to properly add it to their builds. Instead, |
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> the package will install every message file it has available all the time. |
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> You can safely delete any folders from /usr/share/locale for locales |
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> that you don't have installed, since the normal locale support in glibc |
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> will never ask for them. But they'll just get put back next time you |
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> upgrade the package. |
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> --Mike |
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Excellent description -- thank you! |
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In case I find time to blog about this on Planet Gentoo: |
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would you allow using the above text under some Creative Commons |
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license, say CC-BY-SA/3.0? Do you have a personal website or blog that |
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I could add a link to? |
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Best, |
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Sebastian |
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