I noticed while updating to Gnome 2.16 today that gnome2-user-docs took a long time (38 min +), and most of that time was spend on versions of the documents in languages I don't speak. After trying a few things, I found that disabling the nls use flag in scrollkeeper reduced the gnome2-user-docs compile down to under a minute.
It got me thinking...I speak only English, my fiancee speaks English (well, and some French, but she doesn't need our computer to), so I thought, hm, is nls support needed *anywhere?* So I disabled the use flag globally to test, and discovered probably 30 packages that want to be rebuilt, from glibc to vim to coreutils to audacious. If I only need a monoglot computer, would I break anything by disabling nls support? -- Ryan W Sims -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
