Gettext issues (was Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES)

[Eivind Eklund]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:50:06AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:40:27AM +0000, Eivind Eklund 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.
> > 
> > As a such, I think inflicting the level of pain the gettext changes give
> > on our users unless they find a fairly obscure knob is a Bad Idea.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> 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.

Just putting WITHOUT_NLS=yes in /etc/make.conf has mostly solved the
problem for me.  I'm not sure how much it removes, but it has managed to
remove enough that I've never run into the gettext problems after I
added it.

Eivind.