On Friday 29 May 2015 05:24:49 Gevisz wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2015 00:41:08 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Am 28.05.2015 um 17:35 schrieb gevisz: > > > 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. > > > > 1. If a package hard depends on gettext, you can fiddle around with > > useflags as much as you want, it won't change. Not a bug. Just the way > > it is. > > If a package hard depend on gettext, it is a bug, IMHO. > > > 2. Environment variables. Set them. LANG, LANGUAGE and of course LC_ALL > > $ echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 > $ echo $LANGUAGE > %%% This environment variable is not set > $ echo $LC_ALL > %%% This environment variable is not set > > Why the system suddenly decided that my native language is one of > the easten-europien ones, then? > > And a month or two ago, all the system messages was in English > with exactly the same evironment variables setting. (And packages > did not hard-depend on gettext.) Strange.
Do you get anything unexpected when you run 'locale'? -- Regards, Mick
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