Since a few weeks it seems that when I upgrade or rebuild gnome packages all the available translation/languages are installed in /usr/share/locale. I run localepurge regularly, so I can't tell exactly what packages suffer from this problem, but at the moment I've got all the .po files from evince, gnome-vfs and gdm. I also noticed that gimp 2.2.11 and 2.2.11-r1 compiled in more than 1 hour, while the previous releases required more or less 40 minutes, and it seems that most of this time was spent in processing the help files for all the supported languages, so I think that gimp could be interested from this problem as well. However, I didn't check the files installed by gimp 2.2.10 so I can't be sure.
sorry, forgot emerge --info output. GNOME packages are ~x86 (and the dependencies when unstable versions were required) ghepeu@KazeNoTani ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-ck11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="it_IT" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -s" LINGUAS="it en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dati/wd31gb/portage-tmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib isdnlog java jce jpeg kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww mad mmx mmxext mng mono mp3 mpeg musepack mysql ncurses nls nntp nptl nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session sndfile spell spl sse ssl startup-notification svg svga tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 xcomposite xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_it linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
The localization is package specific, and as such there is nothing that can be done globally to make packages which do not support the selective translation to support the LINGUAS variable. Please create bugs against specific packages.
well, since pretty much every GNOME package ceased to work currectly since the switch to po/LINGUAS and the upgrade to the new intltool, I think that this is a more general problem.
(In reply to comment #3) > well, since pretty much every GNOME package ceased to work currectly since the > switch to po/LINGUAS and the upgrade to the new intltool, I think that this is > a more general problem. Yes, this is GNOME bug #342500 - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342500
Closing as UPSTREAM (see previous comment of mine). Use localepurge meanwhile if desired.
