Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 03:50:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gettext issues (was Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES) Message-ID: <20040301115006.GA64348@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040301104026.GC27008@FreeBSD.org> References: <200402040638.i146cVAi035977@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040229233524.GA48293@dragon.nuxi.com> <1078098236.62463.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040301104026.GC27008@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:40:27AM +0000, Eivind Eklund 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. > > As a such, I think inflicting the level of pain the gettext changes give > on our users unless they find a fairly obscure knob is a Bad Idea. > > Any thoughts? 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. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAQyNuWry0BWjoQKURAsVyAJ0cWj12iQdQipHm7JAXK3whbSxSHgCgkdL5 9aO7N6fNioR1SROB82e3zCg= =ZvIg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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