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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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> 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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> (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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> 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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> 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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> |
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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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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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2. environment variables. Set them. LANG, LANGUAGE and of course LC_ALL |
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