Hi Jakub, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 00:39, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote: > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" to clarify that a bit: This setting is exposed to APT as LC_MESSAGES="C" and the manpage apt.conf says: "If LC_MESSAGES is set to "C" only the Translation-en file (if available) will be used." > # apt-config dump | grep Acquire::Languages > Acquire::Languages "none"; The next sentence is "To force apt to use no Translation file use the setting Acquire::Languages=none." So yes, your use case should work - its just not handled properly as the special C-mode is handled before the configuration is considered which is okay for all, but the "none" case. Note through that you can see downloads of Translation files even if you have LANG=C and none set correctly (and APT interpreting it correctly): The reason is that APT will download Translation files for languages it has previously downloaded -- you will just never see the Descriptions with your settings, but maybe a different user with different settings… (otherwise e.g. the cron script would remove the Translations with its calls and a pkgcache.bin would be invalid because of missing/additional Translation files for different users in different locale settings). Best regards David Kalnischkies
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