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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 24/06/2016 16:06, allan gottlieb wrote: |
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>> Having read the latest news article and rereading parts of the |
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>> localization guide, it is not clear to me what action, if any, I need to |
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>> take. |
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>> |
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>> My systems are US English only |
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>> |
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>> /etc/portage/make.conf has |
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>> LINGUAS="en" |
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>> |
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>> /etc/local.gen has just comments plus |
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>> en_US ISO-8859-1 |
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>> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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>> |
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>> Should I add |
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>> L10N="en-US" |
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>> to /etc/portage/make.conf ? |
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>> |
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>> Should I run local-gen ? |
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>> |
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>> Thanks |
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>> allan |
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>> |
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> Add |
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> L10N="en" to make.conf |
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> "en" has no tweaks to be made to the new naming style so that's all you |
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> do. Other folks who use, for example, Brazilian Portuguese, will need to |
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> make tweaks and look up the correct value in the file the news item |
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> references. |
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> For now LINGUAS and L10N will work in parallel and the devs will do the |
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> heavy lifting. For the moment all changes will be light touch, the big |
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> tasks will happen later. |
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> One day you will need to remove LINGUAS from make.conf entirely, but |
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> that day is not today. |
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> And all of this is necessary because making a USE_EXPAND env var called |
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> LINGUAS was a really stupid idea from day one. |
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> |
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Since Alan's post makes more sense to me than the docs, I added the L10N |
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to make.conf and I got a clean output. So, that works. Mine is what |
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Alan posted. I guess I'm ready for the future now. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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