Am 15.03.2013 16:42, schrieb William Giokas: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:28:09PM +0100, Matthias Gorissen wrote: >> We are almost done with the .de version, but there are at least two >> show-stoppers - I simply cannot figure out what it means. >> >> "%s optionally requires %s\n" >> I assume that we are talking about packages, but even if I should be >> wrong, I do not really see how something optional can be required. > > Things that aren't needed for the core functionality, but can optionally > be installed for extra functionality. An example, systemd previously > required two python2 packages optionally, because systemd and everything > would work fine, except one command, which was not part of the core of > systemd. This made those two optional dependencies. > >> And in libalpm we find: >> "could not stat file %s: %s\n" >> Maybe this is very transparent to programmers, but to me, it is not. >> Are we talking about statistics, about static links, or anything I don't >> even ever heard about? > > `could not stat` is Linux slang for `could not find`, since the `stat` > command is used to get status information on a file. > > "Kann %s nicht stat: %s\n" > > pardon my very beginner German, it's been too long since I've used it. > >> Devs could be a little more verbose, at times. Any comment will be >> appreciated. >> > > Thanks,
many thanks for your hint at "status information". I was completly on the wrong track. libalpm.de is up to 100%, and we'll clean up the rest over WE.
