2015-05-30 18:54 GMT+03:00 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>:
> On Saturday 30 May 2015 13:57:34 gevisz wrote:
>> 2015-05-30 12:32 GMT+03:00 Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de>:
>> > Am Sat, 30 May 2015 11:36:28 +0300
>> > schrieb gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>:
>> > [...]
>> > (Note: the word you are looking for is "cache".)
>>
>> So, it is from French.
>
> [OT]
> Yes, along with a vast number of other common words in English; they came
> along with the Normans in 1066 and afterwards. Far more than from German or
> Dutch, and those are far more than from Spanish or Italian.
> [/OT]
>
>> When I learned it in high school, this word was not in our vocabulary. :-)
>>
>> > I strongly suspect that the application doing the translating doesn't
>> > even use gettext.
>>
>> May be, but I cannot think of a better explanation.
>>
>> > Besides which, I'm surprised you're not getting crashes from
>> > applications not finding the gettext libraries, which points
>> > to them not actually using it.
>>
>> Nothing crashed so far and this, in my view, proves that should not
>> be an obligatory dependency for any package in my wold file.
>>
>> >  You can use "emerge --depclean -pv gettext" to determine which do.
>>
>> $ emerge --depclean -pv gettext
>> --- Couldn't find 'gettext' to depclean.
>>
>> >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
>>
>> However, running
>> # equery depends gettext
>> before forcefully unmerging the gettext package,
>> I got the following response:
>>  * These packages depend on gettext:
>
> -->8
>
> I have gettext installed, and pretending to depclean it showed 77 packages
> depending on it. I see it's similar for you.
>
>> > So it seems to me that gettext is a false lead and that the root
>> > of your problem lies somewhere else.
>>
>> May be, but as I have already written it, I cannot think of a better
>> explanation why started in a default profile Firefox uses non-English
>> menu, but started in a new profile, it uses the English menu for the
>> same youtube video on the same web-page.
>
> Have you tried a revdep-rebuild recently? It seems to me that you
> need gettext put back in, and maybe other things too.

Yes, it was merged back on the today's system update.

I have already complained about it.

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