Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:26:24 +0000 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Gettext issues (was Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES) Message-ID: <20040301162624.GE27008@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040301154440.GC71640@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200402040638.i146cVAi035977@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040229233524.GA48293@dragon.nuxi.com> <1078098236.62463.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040301104026.GC27008@FreeBSD.org> <20040301115006.GA64348@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040301154440.GC71640@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:44:40AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. The knob is there for a number of ports (but much fewer than I had thought - I actually thought it was fairly universal): devel/bison/Makefile devel/gmake/Makefile ftp/wget/Makefile mail/mutt-devel/Makefile mail/mutt/Makefile net/darkstat/Makefile This has actually seemed to be enough to stop most of the problems I have with gettext (which shows you what kind of programs I run ;) I think we should try to have it become universal - getting rid of gettext is very useful for most of us. Eivind.
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