Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 02:46:12 +0800 From: Jing-Tang Keith Jang <jtjang@gcn.net.tw> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding a Chinese /usr/compat/linux Message-ID: <20000428024611.A450@phantom.ethome.net.tw> In-Reply-To: <39086515.AE7A42D4@cup.hp.com> References: <20000427013843.A26775@peorth.iteration.net> <39086515.AE7A42D4@cup.hp.com>
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On 04/27/00, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> It should stay a port. If I understand it correctly, it is a replacement
> for linux_base, right? In that case, we should make a tawanese
> linux_base. In the handbook you'll find what kind of name scheme we're
> using for that, IIRC it would be something like tw-linux_base. You might
> want to look it up though, as I'm not at all sure.
>
> Maybe someone on the list can be more precise on this...
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the port, CLE_base. It's basically the same
as linux_base, with a modified glibc and libX11 that recognize Big5
encoding, and some locale-related files are also included. It resides
in the outta-port(*) cvs repo at freebsd.sinica.edu.tw. Anybody can
get the outta-port collection via cvsup.
Maybe it's better to stay the way it is now, since few Linux applications
need an I18N environment, linux_netscape being one of them. Others like
Acrobat or StarOffice even need some tricks to make them work under
CLE_base, although I'm looking forward to a multilingual staroffice for
quite some time...
(*) outta-port is a mechanism in Taiwan's FreeBSD usergroup. It's
just a normal ports cvs repo, consisted of experimental ports
that provide workaround solutions for Taiwan L10N. The objective
is to prevent official ports/chinese from blowing up.
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