Re: [gentoo-user] building kde-meta
On Thursday 21 August 2008 20:24:55 Chuck Robey wrote:
This email comments on something dealing with an emerge package issue; if
this is the wrong list to put that into, let me know, I'll try again.
I'm trying to emerge kde-base/kde-meta. As I ordinarily do with things I
know will have lots of dependencies, I ran emerge --pretend on it to see
if I was all right with the list of dependencies. In this case, one of the
items listed was kde-base/kde-i18n-3.5.9. Now, correct me if I'm wrong,
but the stuff that says i18n is referring to a version that supports a
Russian character list. That's truly useless for me (and, I would think,
the great majority of users in the USA). What I wanted to ask is, having
that file as a default dependency of kde-meta, isn't that hugely wrong? I
mean, shouldn't a user have to slect that in, not have it get installed by
default? I mean, you should need to have something like that in your USE
flags, shouldn't you?
Or, am I getting something wrong in understanding what an app labeled with
i18n would mean?
It's not a default dependency:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/portage/kde-base/kde-meta $ grep i18n *ebuildkde-
meta-3.5.9.ebuild:nls? ( =kde-base/kde-i18n-${PV}:${SLOT} )
So it's only pulled in if you have the nls USE flag set. Engligh-speaking
Americans probably have no need for this, and can unset it
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] building kde-meta
This email comments on something dealing with an emerge package issue; if this is the wrong list to put that into, let me know, I'll try again. I'm trying to emerge kde-base/kde-meta. As I ordinarily do with things I know will have lots of dependencies, I ran emerge --pretend on it to see if I was all right with the list of dependencies. In this case, one of the items listed was kde-base/kde-i18n-3.5.9. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the stuff that says i18n is referring to a version that supports a Russian character list. That's truly useless for me (and, I would think, the great majority of users in the USA). What I wanted to ask is, having that file as a default dependency of kde-meta, isn't that hugely wrong? I mean, shouldn't a user have to slect that in, not have it get installed by default? I mean, you should need to have something like that in your USE flags, shouldn't you? Or, am I getting something wrong in understanding what an app labeled with i18n would mean?
Re: [gentoo-user] building kde-meta
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:24:55 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: Or, am I getting something wrong in understanding what an app labeled with i18n would mean? Yes. i18n is an abbreviation of internationalisation. The Cold War is over, even Americans are expected to know of the existence of nations other than Russia now ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Avoid temporary variables and strange women. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] building kde-meta
On Donnerstag, 21. August 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: This email comments on something dealing with an emerge package issue; if this is the wrong list to put that into, let me know, I'll try again. I'm trying to emerge kde-base/kde-meta. As I ordinarily do with things I know will have lots of dependencies, I ran emerge --pretend on it to see if I was all right with the list of dependencies. In this case, one of the items listed was kde-base/kde-i18n-3.5.9. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the stuff that says i18n is referring to a version that supports a Russian character list. That's truly useless for me (and, I would think, the great majority of users in the USA). What I wanted to ask is, having that file as a default dependency of kde-meta, isn't that hugely wrong? I mean, shouldn't a user have to slect that in, not have it get installed by default? I mean, you should need to have something like that in your USE flags, shouldn't you? Or, am I getting something wrong in understanding what an app labeled with i18n would mean? i18n is all kind of 'internationalisation'. Not only russian characters.
