[gentoo-user] building kde-meta

[Chuck Robey]

This email comments on something dealing with an emerge package issue; if this
is the wrong list to put that into, let me know, I'll try again.

I'm trying to emerge kde-base/kde-meta.  As I ordinarily do with things I know
will have lots of dependencies, I ran "emerge --pretend" on it to see if I was
all right with the list of dependencies.  In this case, one of the items listed
was kde-base/kde-i18n-3.5.9.  Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the stuff that
says "i18n" is referring to a version that supports a Russian character list.
That's truly useless for me (and, I would think, the great majority of users in
the USA).  What I wanted to ask is, having that file as a default dependency of
kde-meta, isn't that hugely wrong?  I mean, shouldn't a user have to slect that
in, not have it get installed by default?  I mean, you should need to have
something like that in your USE flags, shouldn't you?

Or, am I getting something wrong in understanding what an app labeled with
"i18n" would mean?