[pacman-dev] localized log ?
Pierre Schmitz
pierre at archlinux.de
Sat Jul 7 06:19:23 EDT 2007
Am Samstag, 7. Juli 2007 11:42:25 schrieb Xavier:
> Is it a good idea to localize pacman.log also ?
> Do other apps do this as well ?
>
> pacman.log can be handy sometimes for restore/repair purpose,
> if it was always in english, it would be very easy to parse,
> but having to take several languages in consideration make
> it much much harder.
> I've at least 2 examples from the forums of little scripts
> that require pacman.log in english :
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=260452#p260452
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=260961#p260961
I agree. Logs and debug information shouldn`t be localized. In addition to
this one should get rid of all output libalpm currently does.
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