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


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