120130 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Do you even have LINGUAS set in /etc/make.conf or something? > Because at least evince, gdk-pixbuf, xkeyboard-config and > gnome-doc-utils DO honor LINGUAS. > > All GNOME packages that use intltool (that is pretty much everything > except a few low-level libraries) honor LINGUAS much more than > localepurge would ever be able clean afterwards. For example, .desktop > files only have translation lines for languages listed in LINGUAS. Same > for gconf and dconf schemas. Also all end-user documentation > in /usr/share/gnome/help/appname/lang_code/ > > Per above, we would close at least 4 of those bugs as INVALID or at > least OBSOLETE (if some older version had it wrong). > At least in GNOME we feel quite strong about things properly honoring > LINGUAS per old standard GNU conventions. This means installing ALL > translations if LINGUAS is unset, and none if LINGUAS is set to an empty > string. > > Above said, I also do find a use on some systems for localepurge, to > catch the packages that don't honor it. > Though for embedded deployments I might as well not include the > non-interesting language directories in the image.
Thanks for the useful & polite response. I will look into LINGUAS. How to set it is not mentioned in make.conf.example or in man make.conf : where is it documented ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
