Bug#214898: Testing/help needed - experimental glibc version
Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org> said:
> Le jeu 23/10/2003 à 04:10, GOTO Masanori a écrit :
>> This wishlist needs a bit consideration.
>>
>> (1) We store locale setting for 2 files - /etc/environment,
>> /etc/default_locale. Is it good idea?
>
> That's why I suggest to make it temporarily. The locale setting could
> also be read here by PAM.
>
>> (2) Why do you need to read /etc/default_locale instead of
>> /etc/environment? Is it hard to parse /etc/environment so hard?
>
> It is not hard, but you have to be careful with the fact
> /etc/environment can contain spaces.
>
>> (3) I guess gdm issue is the locale dialog in the login screen. Why
>> can't gdm read /etc/environment file? If you mean it's easier to
>> read /etc/default_locale than to parse /etc/environment, yes it
>> may become one of the reason. But does this change fix the gdm
>> issue?
>
> Basically, the gdm maintainer refuses to include code to parse
> /etc/environment. While I think parsing it would be a fine solution, I
> also agree with the fact having a special file for this configuration
> setting would be better.
>
> If you have arguments that can convince Ryan to parse /etc/environment
> until there is a cleaner solution, please show them. Having it not
> localized correctly when it is so easy to achieve is slightly annoying -
> but I fear Ryan is one of those English-speaking maintainers who don't
> care about proper i18n.
Any idea of the choice made by others distros like RedHat or Mandrake
to fix that problem?
--
Mathieu Roy
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