On Saturday 30 May 2015 13:57:34 gevisz wrote: > 2015-05-30 12:32 GMT+03:00 Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de>: > > Am Sat, 30 May 2015 11:36:28 +0300 > > schrieb gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>: > > [...] > > (Note: the word you are looking for is "cache".) > > So, it is from French.
[OT] Yes, along with a vast number of other common words in English; they came along with the Normans in 1066 and afterwards. Far more than from German or Dutch, and those are far more than from Spanish or Italian. [/OT] > When I learned it in high school, this word was not in our vocabulary. :-) > > > I strongly suspect that the application doing the translating doesn't > > even use gettext. > > May be, but I cannot think of a better explanation. > > > Besides which, I'm surprised you're not getting crashes from > > applications not finding the gettext libraries, which points > > to them not actually using it. > > Nothing crashed so far and this, in my view, proves that should not > be an obligatory dependency for any package in my wold file. > > > You can use "emerge --depclean -pv gettext" to determine which do. > > $ emerge --depclean -pv gettext > --- Couldn't find 'gettext' to depclean. > > >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean > > However, running > # equery depends gettext > before forcefully unmerging the gettext package, > I got the following response: > * These packages depend on gettext: -->8 I have gettext installed, and pretending to depclean it showed 77 packages depending on it. I see it's similar for you. > > So it seems to me that gettext is a false lead and that the root > > of your problem lies somewhere else. > > May be, but as I have already written it, I cannot think of a better > explanation why started in a default profile Firefox uses non-English > menu, but started in a new profile, it uses the English menu for the > same youtube video on the same web-page. Have you tried a revdep-rebuild recently? It seems to me that you need gettext put back in, and maybe other things too. -- Rgds Peter