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Date:      19 Sep 2000 00:45:21 -0700
From:      asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Extending BSD.[local,x11].dist to include GNU gettext locale dirs
Message-ID:  <vqcpum04yge.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Maxim Sobolev's message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:00:03 %2B0300"
References:  <39C65823.42396A80@FreeBSD.org>

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 * From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>

 * We have a large number (~200) of ports that use GNU gettext, which implies that
 * they are sharing some common directories. Currently this behaviour is
 * unhandled, so maintainer  of each particular port is free to deal with it
 * whatever he likes. The better solution of course is to add those dirs into our
 * mtree files, so the wheel will not have to be reinvented each time. The only
 * problem, though, is  a lack of complete list of those dirs, which means that
 * potentially each softwar author can name his favorite locale whatever he likes,
 * however most of them are smart enough to choose common 2-letter names
 * optionally followed by encoding name. Following patch was prepared by greeping
 * all PLISTs, so it should be fairly complete. I would like to know what do
 * people think about it.

 * +        locale
 * +            af
 * +                LC_MESSAGES

Thanks for doing all the work, but I have one question: what's the
difference between "nls" and "locale" dirs?  We already have a whole
bunch of subdirectories under "nls" already, can't those be used?

Also, are these "locale" directories only used by gettext (and
gettext-using ports)?  If so, maybe we should implement something to
let gettext supply an additional mtree file (I can work out a
bsd.port.mk patch for this) so they don't have to be on everyone's
system.

Satoshi


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