What about the idea of modifying the mozilla-firefox-bin ebuild so that it downloads the browser in a locale you have set with LINGUAS? My idea: ------ DESCRIPTION="Firefox Web Browser" # If linguas is not set, we default to US english [ -z $LINUGAS ] && LINGUAS="en_US" SRC_URI="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${PV}/linux-i686/${LINGUAS}/firefox-${PV}.tar.gz" ----- Is something like this possible? Thanks Christian N.B.: LINGUAS is set in /etc/make.conf. I know that OOo and KDE is using it, so why not firefox and/or thunderbird, too? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
"The variable takes in space-separated list of language codes" What would it do in the case of LINGUAS="sv"? What would it do in the case of LINGUAS="sv en"?
Okay, seems my patch is not okay. So maybe we could list every src like done in OpenOffice-bin. This should not be a bigger problem If you do not want to do this, I may send a patch in the near future. But this may take some days Regards Christian
I think you misunderstood me. I am not maintaining any relevant packages, I am just a user. The idea is probably good (I don't use mozillas of any kind so I don't really know) but I think it might need a second iteration on thinking on the implementation so it is done right. I wish you the best of luck. I am sure users of firefox will be very happy to get an internationalized version.
Created attachment 69757 [details] mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7.ebuild.diff This patch could be a a sample for what I have meant. Missing: Fallback to a default linguas, if none was defined (can this happen?). Also: What happens to users, defining a linguas, which is not supported? Thanks for answers Christian
Duplicate of bug 69654.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69654 ***
