This is an old issue, but I want to suggest a re-visit :) As we all know, setting LC_ALL and friends can cause all sorts of trouble in package builds. However, many users really appreciate being able to set it so that errors from the compiler etc are in their own language.
It occurs to me that during emerge, only LC_MESSAGES is actually useful for the user, to help interpret build errors. LC_COLLATE and the others don't give the user any benefit in the emerge process. So how about if LANG or LC_* are set, portage would set LC_MESSAGES and clear the rest? Is there any real advantage to the user having LC_* set apart from LC_MESSAGES? -- Kevin F. Quinn
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