[cyrille@chepelov.org: Re: Translating apt]
C'è stata recentemente una breve discussione sullo stesso argomento
del quale si è discusso in questa lista.
Qui suggeriscono di tradurre correttamente (anche usando caratteri
"strani") la frase di APT che deve essere riscritta eguale.
Nel messaggio che riporto c'è il riassunto del thread.
Ciao,
Giuseppe
----- Forwarded message from Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org> -----
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:37:54 +0100
From: Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org>
To: Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jose@jaimedelamo.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Translating apt
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Le Mon, Feb 11, 2002, à 04:28:47PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo a écrit:
> > If that happens (ie, if the system is so broken that the keyboard layout is
> > US-ASCII), couldn't the user run APT with LANG=C for the purpose of bringing
> > the system into a more usable state ?
> >
>
> Yes, he can do it. The question is: does he know that he can do it?
APT demands this long confirmation message, because the user is about to
do bad things to essential packages (IOW, APT thinks that if the user
doesn't know precisely what he's doing, he's going to make the system
unusable). I don't think it's too much to ask from a sysadmin about to do
extremely dangerous things to his system to know about working around
lacking keymaps using LANG=C tricks.
IOW: if it was required to type this long message in order to *recover* the
system, from so-crippled-the-keyboard-is-US-ASCII state to "normal", in a
foolproof and safe way, then it would have been Wrong to demand that the
user is able to interact at least a little with his system in LANG=C mode
(actually, it would have been Wrong to demand that the user be required to
use LANG=C at all).
However, we're talking about the exact opposite: we're asking the user a
confirmation that he's a power user knowing exactly what he's going to do,
and knowing he takes extreme risks with his system. Demanding knowledge of
LANG=C to work around a potential mis-configuration, in that precise case,
is probably not too much IMO.
-- Cyrille
--
Grumpf.
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