On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:36:17PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Fri, 19 May 2006 11:38:06 +0200 > Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One problem could be that packages depend on LC_* to install the > > correct language. But that is a real bug then in my opinion, because > > ebuilds should only honour LINGUAS and not LC_* during build time. > > Those bugs should be detected and fixed. > > I disagree. LINGUAS is a Gentoo-specific thing, so is only relevant to > ebuilds. If a package uses LC_* to determine the user's locale > preferences, I see no problem with that.
LINGUAS is not Gentoo-specific at all. Gentoo didn't even come up with it. It's a gettext variable, which is re-used (with an annoyingly slightly different meaning) by Gentoo. That said, if a package can only install one translation at a time, and it detects this at compile-time via LC_*, it's sort of braindead at least. (A creates a package for B. B would like the Italian version. A does not know any Italian. There is a build error. Because the system forced LC_* to be set to Italian, A has no idea what the errors mean.) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
