Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:44:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gettext issues (was Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES) Message-ID: <20040301154440.GC71640@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040301115006.GA64348@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200402040638.i146cVAi035977@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040229233524.GA48293@dragon.nuxi.com> <1078098236.62463.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040301104026.GC27008@FreeBSD.org> <20040301115006.GA64348@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:50:06AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Talking of gettext: I've been toying with the idea of having WITHOUT_NLS > > settable in sysinstall, or defaulting NLS to off. I believe most FreeBSD > > users will want the english version, even if translations are available. ... > This is worth exploring further. I certainly do not expect to ever > need on my system the features gettext provides, although it's likely > that not all software can be easily weaned of the dependency. I personally would love this knob -- shoot I'd almost say it should be the default. GNU autoconf (at least for the toolchain) supports a --without-nls option. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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