[pacman-dev] localized log ?

[Aaron Griffin]

On 7/8/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Seconded.  Considering debug output is for... well, us, and we all
speak english well enough (except me, I dun gooder englich with speaks
none) it doesn't much make sense for someone to show us debug output
in italian.