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

[Kris Kennaway]

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.

Kris
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