On 12/13/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ryan Sims wrote: 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? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml This is the part that matters: There is also additional localisation variable called LINGUAS, which affects to localisation files that get installed in gettext-based programs, and decides used localisation for some specific software packages, such as kde-base/kde-i18n and app-office/openoffice. The variable takes in space-separated list of language codes, and suggested place to set it is /etc/make.conf: Code Listing 3.5: Setting LINGUAS in make.conf # nano -w /etc/make.conf(Add in the LINGUAS variable. For instance, for German, Finnish and English:) LINGUAS="de fi en" I think that will help you. I have -nls in mine too. So both should not hurt anything. Hope that helps.
Thanks. I do have my LINGUAS variable set to "en," but as I understand it[1], the LINGUAS variable is expanded to use flags, so ebuilds that don't use those flags wont respect LINGUAS, is that correct? [1]http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/linguas/index.html -- Ryan W Sims
