On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:38:06AM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Hi, > > there are at least two problems with how portage currently handles locales: > > - Firstly some packages fail to build with obscure LC_* settings > The continuous stream of et_EE bugs is annoying: http://tinyurl.com/jsqzb > > - and secondly I get my gcc output in german when I have a german locale > set. This makes it really hard to report bugs or the bugreports are useless > for most developers that do not understand the language. > > Those problems cannot be easily workarounded since portage does not use > LC_ALL and LANG settings from /etc/make.conf > > I propose to have the portage build environment set the language to English > or LC_ALL=C by default. That would significantly reduce the bugs with > unreadable error messages+ solve all the et_EE bugs at once. > > One problem could be that packages depend on LC_* to install the correct > language. But that is a real bug then in my opinion, because ebuilds should > only honour LINGUAS and not LC_* during build time. Those bugs should be > detected and fixed. > > What do you think? LC_ALL=C in portage or not?
No, it's needlessly unfriendly to users, and encourages broken packages. et_EE breakage should be fixed, and slowly but surely is, and as for unreadable error messages, getting German gcc output in a German locale is a feature, not a bug. It can indeed be a problem in bugreports, but it's a much milder one, since it's trivial to look up what any particular message is translated from. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
