[gentoo-dev] Packages/build systems not honoring LINGUAS and a sane solution

2012-02-17 Thread Piotr Szymaniak
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

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages/build systems not honoring LINGUAS and a sane solution

2012-02-17 Thread Duncan
Piotr Szymaniak posted on Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:58:06 +0100 as excerpted: Long story short: localepurge will be removed from portage If the maintainers are interested, perhaps gentoolkit could adopt it? That would mean it's on most portage-based systems anyway, in my experience. The

[gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

2012-02-17 Thread Kerin Millar
On 15/02/2012 12:22, Mr. Aaron W. Swenson wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58:52PM +0100, Francesco R.(vivo) wrote: as subject says could gentoo change the policy and set an UTF-8 environment by default? Perhaps it should define LANG=en_US.UTF-8 as a reasonable default, which would be in