Re: man page translations

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:15:19PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:13:46PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> > I think that installing translations by default is standard behavior. I
> > have a lot of /usr/share/man/<code> directories on my Debian system.
>
> I have those directories, but even the largest of them is less than
> 10% the size of my English man pages.
>
> > I was wrong about the --enable-nls=... syntax. To install only a subset
> > of the available languages, define the environment variable LINGUAS when
> > installing. This matches the behavior for the installation of gettext
> > catalogs.
> >
> > LINGUAS="de es" make install
>
> This sounds like a good way for people who don't want the extra man
> pages to deal with it.  As you note, it will help with other packages
> and with gettext catalogs too.  If we only want English, I guess we
> should just set LINGUAS to "en"?  Setting it empty might work for Nmap
> too, but perhaps other packages have a non-English default language?

To get only English, you should use --disable-nls. English is always
installed, in the special /usr/share/man/man1 location. LINGUAS=en
doesn't work:

/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `docs/nmap-en.1': No such file or directory

But I think I should make it not be an error if LINGUAS contains
language codes that are not among the translations we offer.

> Assuming we settle on this approach (i.e. if nobody proposes something
> different), can you document this in the install guide?

Yes, will do.

David Fifield
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