565326 – portage should warn when LC_ALL has been set

Bug 565326 - portage should warn when LC_ALL has been set

Summary: portage should warn when LC_ALL has been set

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Configuration (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2015-11-10 06:55 UTC by SpanKY
Modified:	2024-02-29 15:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:	925863
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-11-10 06:55:58 UTC

i've gotten a few reports in now where the messages were not in english because the user was setting LC_ALL to their language.  our docs/wiki have long discouraged this behavior in favor of LANG and specific LC_xxx vars.

we should add a check to emerge so that when it sees LC_ALL set it issues a warning that they should be setting LANG only and refer them to the wiki:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide