On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:27:20PM +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote: > Moreover this would automagically solve the [a-z] & friends regexp > failures; though that's still good QA to fix them but we wouldn't > encounter them anymore.
We would encounter them when using the programs outside of portage, but not when running the testsuite (if available) from within portage. It would succeed in working around compile-time only bugs, but it would be a major pain for locale bugs that can also cause problems at run time.
