Hi Stefan, Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:49:30PM +0100: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 04:29:12PM +0100, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
>> After removing National Language Support (NLS) from base, I think >> the directory /usr/share/nls should go. Having a non-existing >> default path in catopen(3) does not make sense, so I also removed >> that. > It sounds like not providing a default path violates POSIX. > > """ > If NLSPATH does not exist in the environment, or if a message catalog > cannot be found in any of the components specified by NLSPATH, then an > implementation-defined default path shall be used. > """" > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/catopen.html > > Do we care? Perhaps this detail is not important? FWIW, i don't see anything that would disallow the implementation-defined default path from being empty. Besides, an empty default path has the same effect as a default path consisting of empty directories, except that the former is more efficient. So even if somebody insists that an empty default path is a POSIX violation, it doesn't seem to be an *observable* violation. No user is supposed to add files to /usr/share/; users are only supposed to add files to /usr/local/. So bluhm@'s diff implies no functional change and makes sense to me. Yours, Ingo
