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[Monotone-debian] Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review nvm.man-page
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Francis Russell |
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[Monotone-debian] Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review nvm.man-page |
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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:23:19 +0100 |
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Thomas Keller wrote:
> The reason why the "manpage" command is not hidden and has this
> interactivity functionality at all is that you cannot create localized
> man pages on build time, since you cannot enforce which message
> catalogue should be used unless the application is installed. So I
> thought it might be a good idea to install the plain text english one
> (available via `man mtn`) and have the localized one when `mtn manpage`
> is called.
I only understood this paragraph after I sent my first message. As the
locale data location can be set by altering the LOCPATH environment
variable, surely it should be possible to create the other localised
man-pages at build time, provided that gettext can be convinced to use a
particular locale?
Francis
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Francis Russell <=