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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:50:06AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Talking of gettext: I've been toying with the idea of having WITHOUT_NLS
> > settable in sysinstall, or defaulting NLS to off.  I believe most FreeBSD
> > users will want the english version, even if translations are available.
...
> This is worth exploring further.  I certainly do not expect to ever
> need on my system the features gettext provides, although it's likely
> that not all software can be easily weaned of the dependency.

I personally would love this knob -- shoot I'd almost say it should be
the default.  GNU autoconf (at least for the toolchain) supports a
--without-nls option.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)