2009/9/30 Ed W <li...@wildgooses.com>
> Gordon Malm wrote:
>
>> It is my estimation that flag was disabled by mistake on the
>> hardened/linux/${arch} profiles. I have re-enabled it. Should be fixed on
>> your next sync
>>
>
> Yearggg... oh bother...
>
> It's been like that for a whilst so I took it as a hint and just updated 8
> servers this way...
>
> I *think* I actually have very little need for nls? I believe that given
> it's "a server" and given only admins who all speak the same language will
> access it, then the only times I need nls are for specific client
> applications which need translation? So as near as I can tell I only need
> it for certain web applications (PHP, squirrelmail, etc) - can someone
> confirm or deny that this is a correct understanding of how nls actually
> works out?
>
> The main reason I care is that I have a lot of linux-vservers and it's
> obviously helpful to sync USE flags across as many machines as practical in
> order to make use of binary packages.
>
> Anyone care to comment on why else I might care to standardise on nls
> enabled or disabled for a mail/web server type installation?
>
> It's been very deliberately marked as removed, so I wondered if there was a
> history of bugs in gettext which argued for it not to be on by default?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ed W
>
> I have absolutely zero technical information to give you, but basically
under the same assumption as you just presented, I have run my server with
-nls for a long time. Even my home desktop has -nls. This may be really
stupid for all I know, but I never noticed a problem. I'm Swedish, so I'm
not natively english-speaking, but I do run everything in english language
environments.
