Re: [Synaptic-devel] synaptic 0.46pre1

[Richard Bos]

Op donderdag 20 november 2003 22:35, schreef Gustavo Niemeyer:
> Hi Richard!
>
> > Back to the locales.  At the moment I must install the locales
> > in /usr/share/locales instead of /opt/gnome/share/locales as synaptic
> > does not pick up the locales from the latter location.  This was reported
> > by someone else.  I use the english variant myself I therefor don't
> > notice the problem and I don't know how to test the locale settings as
> > well.
>
> Ok.. locales are now looked for in $(prefix)/$DATADIR/locale, so if you
> change your prefix, it will look for them in the right place.

thanks!!  It's clear now why they are not found.

> > I prefer to have the locales in /opt/gnome/share/locales as result of
> > configure.  Can anyone enlighten me how I can make the system aware that
> > the locales must be picked up from /opt/gnome/share/locales?  For the
> > record other (gnome) applications are picking the locales
> > from /opt/gnome/share/locales.  Is there some app to be run in the post
> > part of the rpm installation?
>
> Setting the prefix will work now. If you want to change the locale
> without changing the prefix, you'll have to hack gtk/Makefile.am to set
> PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR to where you want, at the moment.

May I ask; would it be possible/wise to look for the locales in 
$(datadir)/locale instead of $(prefix)/$DATADIR/locale?  If yes, will this be 
part of the next version?  If yes I won't change the synaptic rpm that I 
distribute at the moment.

-- 
Richard Bos
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