Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:28:23 +0200 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@ivb.nn.kiev.ua> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gettext issues (was Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES) Message-ID: <20040321102823.GB4401@iv.nn.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040301104026.GC27008@FreeBSD.org> References: <200402040638.i146cVAi035977@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040229233524.GA48293@dragon.nuxi.com> <1078098236.62463.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040301104026.GC27008@FreeBSD.org>
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Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:40:27, eivind (Eivind Eklund) wrote about "Gettext issues (was Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES)": EE> Talking of gettext: I've been toying with the idea of having WITHOUT_NLS EE> settable in sysinstall, or defaulting NLS to off. I believe most FreeBSD EE> users will want the english version, even if translations are available. EE> As a such, I think inflicting the level of pain the gettext changes give EE> on our users unless they find a fairly obscure knob is a Bad Idea. EE> Any thoughts? I strongly agree. Internationalization (aka i18n) is generally good idea, but there is no need to treat it as Green Banner against all Heretics:( Pity, but this is fact for GNU world. For servers, it generally gives no useful functionality (and the same for X libraries - so `WITHOUT_NLS=yes' and `WITHOUT_X11=yes' are the first thing I set now in make.conf for each new server). OTOH, it's the least useful to download 6 megs to hosts with bad connectivity, when most of these megs are gettext's internal crap which is totally useless for application which requires only libintl. -netch-
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