Ryan Sims wrote: > On 12/13/06, *Dale* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Ryan Sims wrote: >> I noticed while updating to Gnome 2.16 today that gnome2-user-docs >> took a long time (38 min +), and most of that time was spend on >> versions of the documents in languages I don't speak. After >> trying a >> few things, I found that disabling the nls use flag in scrollkeeper >> reduced the gnome2-user-docs compile down to under a minute. >> >> It got me thinking...I speak only English, my fiancee speaks English >> (well, and some French, but she doesn't need our computer to), so I >> thought, hm, is nls support needed *anywhere?* >> So I disabled the use flag globally to test, and discovered probably >> 30 packages that want to be rebuilt, from glibc to vim to >> coreutils to >> audacious. >> >> If I only need a monoglot computer, would I break anything by >> disabling nls support? >> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml > > This is the part that matters: > >> There is also additional localisation variable called LINGUAS, >> which affects to localisation files that get installed in >> gettext-based programs, and decides used localisation for some >> specific software packages, such as kde-base/kde-i18n and >> app-office/openoffice. The variable takes in space-separated list >> of language codes, and suggested place to set it is /etc/make.conf: >> >> Code Listing 3.5: Setting LINGUAS in make.conf >> >> # nano -w /etc/make.conf >> (Add in the LINGUAS variable. For instance, >> for German, Finnish and English:) >> LINGUAS="de fi en" >> >> > > I think that will help you. I have -nls in mine too. So both > should not hurt anything. > > Hope that helps. > > > Thanks. I do have my LINGUAS variable set to "en," but as I > understand it[1], the LINGUAS variable is expanded to use flags, so > ebuilds that don't use those flags wont respect LINGUAS, is that correct? > > [1]http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/linguas/index.html > > -- > Ryan W Sims
Well, I put -nls in USE line and LINGUAS="en" in my make.conf and it has worked fine so far. Everything is in English at least. Some things do seem to compile faster too. I did have one package that had a bug but it was fixed when I added the -nls. From what I was told, if you want English only, this is the way to do it. I'm not really sure how the two interact with each other. I would assume English is the default language. You add variables to get something other than English. Hope that helps, a little, since I'm not real sure either. Dale :-) :-) :-)
