On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:23 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > 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. > > we've fixed our documents so users should be setting LANG, not LC_ALL > > > 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? > > to answer the question directly, i think you're correct in that only > LC_MESSAGES is a benefit to the user and screwing with the localization > variables as suggested seems pretty sane > > hoooooooooooooooowever, ;) > while i see the direction you're looking to go and the burdens you're looking > to relieve, i think this just puts us back to the state that i disagree > with ... namely that we shouldnt be ignoring these sort of problems, we > should be fixing them
Seems a forced ignore would fix them. (problem solved! next bug..) -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
