[pacman-dev] localized log ?

[Dan McGee]

On 7/7/07, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> 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.

Just put a fix on my own branch so that alpm_logaction calls are not
called with localized strings.

The second part is going to be a bit more intensive to fix, but I
agree with it on most counts.

-Dan