Am 28.05.2015 um 17:35 schrieb gevisz: > In my everyday work at the computer, I read > and type at three or even four different languages. > > However, I do want to have all program menues > and system messages only in English. > > So, when I found out that it can be achieved by > setting -nls USE flag at my make.conf file, I did > it, recompiled the system and for a few weeks > enjoyed the full control of my Gentoo system. > > (As far as I can remember the gettext package > was successfully depcleaned from my Gentoo > system just after that.) > > However, after those few weeks (and some system > updates), I have noticed that my system started > to translate some "system" messages into one of > the languages I use but which is not my native language. > > Moreover, running > $ equery depends gettext > I get about two fullscreens of packages that supposedly > depend on gettext. Nevertheless, in all of them the -nls > USE flag is either unset or absent. > > I have tried to depclean the gettext package from my > system once again but portage just ignored my > $ emerge --depclean gettext > command. > > I think that it is some kind of a bug in the portage tree: > when I set -nls USE flag globally, I do expect that the "system" > messages will appear in English only and will not be translated > in any other language, but the system understands that as > I would have asked for a "non-native" language support. > > Of course, this is not my main problem in this life, but every > time I get the "system" messages translated into my non-native > language, I feel as I get a reminder that I do not have a full > control of my Gentoo system. > > So, my questions are: > 1. Is it a bug? > 2. How can I get rid of those unwelcomed translations in the right way. > >
1. if a package hard depends on gettext, you can fiddle around with useflags as much as you want, it won't change. Not a bug. Just the way it is. 2. environment variables. Set them. LANG, LANGUAGE and of course LC_ALL
