On Wed, 24 May 2006 13:17:54 +0200 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Thanks for the clarification - I only looked through the gnu libc info pages for it (since we had been talking about locales) so I didn't find it. > 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.) Fair enough. -- Kevin F. Quinn
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