[mplayer-dev-eng] Re: install localized manpages +

[Rüdiger Kuhlmann]

>--[D Richard Felker III]--<dalias at aerifal.cx>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:29:44PM +0100, Gabucino wrote:
> > D Richard Felker III wrote:

> > And in 99% of the cases our opinions agree. But localized _were and are_
> > installed in /usr/man/LANG since ages.
> Arrg, I am not contesting that!! However, they are not installed here
> (or anywhere) on my system. Perhaps it's a side effect of
> --disable-nls,

Possibly.

> I'll be happy to implement installation of the correct man page based
> on --language=foo. BTW, does mplayer even support runtime language
> selection? If not, there seems to be no point in installing any manual
> but the one for the selected language...

No it doesn't, and it sucks this way because it doesn't even transcode the
strings correctly, but that's a completely seperate issue.

> BTW, if you could point me to a localized package with multiple
> translated man pages, I'd be happy to read its scripts and figure out
> why it installs them for everyone but myself, so that mplayer can do
> the same.

>From my package list: man-db, gs, micq, muttprint, shadow, xine. Note,
however, that the man pages for most system tools are handled by seperate
documentation projects and thus not distributed with them.

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