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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2010 01:45:12 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net-im/pidgin Makefile pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20100524014512.GC30262@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BF9D7D9.8060207@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 06:35:21PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that people who need it have the 
> opportunity to see things in their native languages, and I'd never want 
> to take that away. But for those of us who don't, smaller libs/binaries 
> + less dependencies are good things. I hope you'll reconsider.

I also prefer to see LC_MESSAGES in English, but that does not mean I am
forced to disable NLS whenever possible.  It is just a matter of setting
an environment variable.

Given that gettext is so widely used it is mostly guaranteed that it
will be installed on a system with more than a dozen of ports, size/deps
savings are probably marginal anyways.

./danfe



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