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Re: localisation in system wide daemons



Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 19:33 +0100, Nico Golde a écrit :
> Hi,
> Adam Cécile reported #400719[0] to the fetchmail package.
> 
> The question is wheter a system wide daemon should care 
> about the system wide locale configurations or not.
> 
> Fetchmail currently does, we are not calling it with 
> LC_MESSAGES=C or something similar.
> I can't find anything about this in the policy but to me it 
> doesnt make sense to use a locale if you dont want it for 
> some programs.
> 
> Since it would be also possible to adjust the settings with 
> LC_ALL=C in /etc/default/fetchmail I just closed the bug but 
> reopened it now cause I want to hear some other opinions.
> What do you think what is the best way here?

I don't know why exactly fetchmail needs it, but I believe daemons that
have an interface should be localized. 
-- 
Josselin Mouette                /\./\

"Do you have any more insane proposals for me?"

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