120130 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On E, 2012-01-30 at 06:56 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> 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 ? > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 > I presume you only have things set in /etc/locale.nopurge > and wrongly expect packages to honor it. > Specific packages do not and can not look at that file, > as it's localepurge specific > and upstream projects shouldn't have any knowledge of it. > LINGUAS is the standard environment variable for this > with gettext based systems, and intltool honors it as well. > I remember a longer description of it in some info file, > but right now only found > http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Installers.html > Bugs are hopefully appreciated by maintainers for packages > that don't honor that environment variable set via /etc/make.conf.
I added a line 'LINGUAS="en"' to make.conf & rebooted, emerged the 6 pkgs I listed in a previous msg & ran 'localepurge' again. This time, only 'rekonq' & 'sane-backends' offended. > If an upstream doesn't honor it, they are probably just not using > the standard autoconf/automake glue for it correctly > or use a different build system support for it wrongly > or the build system is suboptimal on this. I'm surprised at 'sane-backends', which is a longstanding app, but 'rekonq' is a recent invention & may need informing re the issue. > Some Gentoo packages also have a LINGUAS USE_EXPAND, > so show up in emerge --verbose --ask world and similar outputs. > This is typically used when extra downloads are necessary for the languages > (e.g firefox or libreoffice per-language packs) > and often don't honor the "LINGUAS unset == all languages" convention. > Packages that don't need any extra downloads or long building time > do not expose this as USE_EXPAND USE flags and just silently work it out > in their build system, and that's the most reasonable approach for us. Yes, I've seen it in output for 'emerge -pv' for FF & LO. > Hope this helps, Yes, that's exactly the kind of response users need: LINGUAS is some way down the doc you refer to & I assumed LANG was enough. I also realised that as 'localepurge' is a script, I can move it to /usr/local/bin/ , if it does fall out of the tree. I will file bugs for the 2 offending pkgs above & leave the hard-working devs to get on with their other affairs. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
