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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 12:53:11
Message-Id: 5358210.DvuYhMxLoT@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc) by Dr Rainer Woitok
1 On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 12:42:03 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
2 > Peter, sorry for the late reply :-(
3 >
4 > On Monday, 2020-05-04 16:30:49 +0100, you wrote:
5 > > ...
6 > > What do you have in your kernel config, under File Systems / Native
7 > > Language Support? I only have a few selected: the ones I might use. (This
8 > > may be a red herring.)
9 >
10 > Only these:
11 >
12 > (utf8) Default NLS Option
13 > <*> Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)
14 > <*> ASCII (United States)
15 > <*> NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)
16 > <*> NLS UTF-8
17 >
18 > But just as an example:
19 >
20 > # find / -xdev -type d -name ru
21 > /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/locale/ru
22 > /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/media/icon-themes/cmd/ru
23 > /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mercurial/locale/ru
24 > /usr/share/help/ru
25 > /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/ru
26 > /usr/share/vim/vim82/lang/ru
27 > /usr/share/man/ru
28 > /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.33.1/locale/ru
29 > /usr/share/locale/ru
30 > /usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/locale/ru
31 > /var/cache/man/ru
32 > #
33 >
34 > And searching for other language codes irrelevant to me gives similar
35 > results. I've already thought about adding "-nls" to the global USE
36 > flags, but I'm fearing to lose "en-GB" that way.
37
38 I see what you mean. I'm just remerging @world with -nls, but it causes 95
39 rebuilds, including a lot of kde-frameworks packages, so I've copied my
40 packages directory in case your fear is borne out. I'll let you know.
41
42 --
43 Regards,
44 Peter.

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