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On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Am 28.05.2015 um 17:35 schrieb gevisz: |
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>> In my everyday work at the computer, I read |
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>> and type at three or even four different languages. |
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>> |
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>> However, I do want to have all program menues |
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>> and system messages only in English. |
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>> |
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>> So, when I found out that it can be achieved by |
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>> setting -nls USE flag at my make.conf file, I did |
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>> it, recompiled the system and for a few weeks |
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>> enjoyed the full control of my Gentoo system. |
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>> |
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>> (As far as I can remember the gettext package |
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>> was successfully depcleaned from my Gentoo |
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>> system just after that.) |
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>> |
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>> However, after those few weeks (and some system |
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>> updates), I have noticed that my system started |
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>> to translate some "system" messages into one of |
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>> the languages I use but which is not my native language. |
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>> |
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>> Moreover, running |
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>> $ equery depends gettext |
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>> I get about two fullscreens of packages that supposedly |
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>> depend on gettext. Nevertheless, in all of them the -nls |
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>> USE flag is either unset or absent. |
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>> |
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>> I have tried to depclean the gettext package from my |
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>> system once again but portage just ignored my |
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>> $ emerge --depclean gettext |
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>> command. |
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>> I think that it is some kind of a bug in the portage tree: |
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>> when I set -nls USE flag globally, I do expect that the "system" |
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>> messages will appear in English only and will not be translated |
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>> in any other language, but the system understands that as |
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>> I would have asked for a "non-native" language support. |
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>> Of course, this is not my main problem in this life, but every |
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>> time I get the "system" messages translated into my non-native |
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>> language, I feel as I get a reminder that I do not have a full |
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>> control of my Gentoo system. |
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>> |
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>> So, my questions are: |
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>> 1. Is it a bug? |
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>> 2. How can I get rid of those unwelcomed translations in the right way. |
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> |
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> 1. if a package hard depends on gettext, you can fiddle around with |
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> useflags as much as you want, it won't change. Not a bug. Just the way |
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> it is. |
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Sometimes it is a bug and the ebuild doesn't need gettext |
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unconditionally. It takes some expertise to figure that out, however. |
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> 2. environment variables. Set them. LANG, LANGUAGE and of course LC_ALL |
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> |
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I would suggest setting LANG=foo_BAR.UTF-8 and |
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LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8. Where foo and BAR are your native language |
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and locale. |
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