In my everyday work at the computer, I read and type at three or even four different languages.
However, I do want to have all program menues and system messages only in English. So, when I found out that it can be achieved by setting -nls USE flag at my make.conf file, I did it, recompiled the system and for a few weeks enjoyed the full control of my Gentoo system. (As far as I can remember the gettext package was successfully depcleaned from my Gentoo system just after that.) However, after those few weeks (and some system updates), I have noticed that my system started to translate some "system" messages into one of the languages I use but which is not my native language. Moreover, running $ equery depends gettext I get about two fullscreens of packages that supposedly depend on gettext. Nevertheless, in all of them the -nls USE flag is either unset or absent. I have tried to depclean the gettext package from my system once again but portage just ignored my $ emerge --depclean gettext command. I think that it is some kind of a bug in the portage tree: when I set -nls USE flag globally, I do expect that the "system" messages will appear in English only and will not be translated in any other language, but the system understands that as I would have asked for a "non-native" language support. Of course, this is not my main problem in this life, but every time I get the "system" messages translated into my non-native language, I feel as I get a reminder that I do not have a full control of my Gentoo system. So, my questions are: 1. Is it a bug? 2. How can I get rid of those unwelcomed translations in the right way.
