[pacman-dev] [translation] Wtf does pacman say?

[Matthias Gorissen]

Am 15.03.2013 16:42, schrieb William Giokas:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:28:09PM +0100, Matthias Gorissen wrote:
>> We are almost done with the .de version, but there are at least two
>> show-stoppers - I simply cannot figure out what it means.
>>
>> "%s optionally requires %s\n"
>> I assume that we are talking about packages, but even if I should be
>> wrong, I do not really see how something optional can be required.
> 
> Things that aren't needed for the core functionality, but can optionally
> be installed for extra functionality. An example, systemd previously
> required two python2 packages optionally, because systemd and everything
> would work fine, except one command, which was not part of the core of
> systemd. This made those two optional dependencies.
> 
>> And in libalpm we find:
>> "could not stat file %s: %s\n"
>> Maybe this is very transparent to programmers, but to me, it is not.
>> Are we talking about statistics, about static links, or anything I don't
>> even ever heard about?
> 
> `could not stat` is Linux slang for `could not find`, since the `stat`
> command is used to get status information on a file.
> 
> "Kann %s nicht stat: %s\n"
> 
> pardon my very beginner German, it's been too long since I've used it.
>  
>> Devs could be a little more verbose, at times. Any comment will be
>> appreciated.
>>
> 
> Thanks,

many thanks for your hint at "status information". I was completly on
the wrong track.
libalpm.de is up to 100%, and we'll clean up the rest over WE.