On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:17:46AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:56:46 +0200, > Denis Barbier wrote: > > > "None" means "I don't want to set LANG variable to /etc/environment". > > > > > > In this case, I think adding "Don't touch /etc/environment" entry is > > > appropriate like "Don't touch keymap" in console related package (I > > > forgot the actual package name, but I guess you know it). In > > > addition, "None" is vague name - I propose it as "Don't set LANG" and > > > so on. > > > > No, locales.config parses this file in order to catch user's settings. > > I can see two reasons why this could fail: > > a. locales.config is unable to parse /etc/environment. > > It's no problem. locales.config just parses /etc/environment even if > there's unknown LANG settings.
It fails if for instance there are spaces before LANG= [...] > > b. The selected locale is not listed in SUPPORTED. > > About (a), the format of /etc/environment is mostly unspecified, so > > it is not worth trying to fix this parsing, the right solution is to > > let the locales package handle its own configuration file. > > I would like to know: why can console-data have "Don't touch keymap", > but can't locales have "Don't touch /etc/environment"? The difference is that locales interact with a configuration file. This option was there months ago (named then "Leave alone") and http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/04/msg00270.html was about its removal (among other things). > > About (b), I am not sure how to best fix it, but this bugreport should > > then be retitled. > > I think there're two reasons to improve this area: > > (1) Some locales have alias name because of historical reason. For > example, ja_JP.EUC-JP is listed in SUPPORTED, but I prefer to > use ja_JP.eucJP. eucJP is alias of EUC-JP. > > (2) If we want to use new locale for local experiment, we have no > idea to keep such locale in /etc/environment. It's not enough > reason for users, though. > > So I think "Don't touch /etc/environment" is good idea to introduce it. I disagree. Another solution is to add the current value found in /etc/environment to the list of choices so that it can be selected, the problem then is that this locale may not exist. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
