Hi. Long story short: localepurge will be removed from portage [1]. As I was (/am) heavy user of it I found it funny that "linguas takes care of the proper locale installation" [2]. Maybe it should, but there's some major failure in lots of packages.
So I filled few dozen bugs about this, but it's not always an easy task to make a package respect LINGUAS. As we talked about it on #gentoo-bugs there were few suggestions to solve this issue. Not directly related to solving, but will help (by ssuominen): make a tracker bug for offending packages And related to issue: 1) an eclass to clean unwanted locale/man pages/whatsoever - yngwin suggested that theres something similar for qt [3] 2) something like FEATURES="fixlafiles" (fixlocale? ;) Opinions? [1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_1ad70654df864843b9b6d0da2f177183.xml [2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_69c10fa4b1af60615e49f09e79c63dd1.xml [3] - 000039 < yngwin> https://gitorious.org/gentoo-qt/qt/blobs/master/eclass/qt4-edge.eclass at the end has prepare_translations, but it's Qt specific Piotr Szymaniak. -- - Zemscic sie? - pociagnal nosem Waldo. - Nie wiem. Kiedys myslalem o zemscie. (...) Lecz koniec koncem, coz ona jest warta, ta zachwalana zemsta? Niczego sie przez nia nie zyskuje. Bynajmniej nie poprawia czlowiekowi samopoczucia. I w koncu sprawia, ze staje sie on jeszcze gorszy od ludzi, ktorych chcial ukarac. -- Graham Masterton, "The Burning"
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