Why is there no Native Language Support (NLS) in OpenPKG packages?
There are many reasons why even packages which are shipped with NLS support are not packaged with NLS support. First, NLS is great if the whole system, i.e., all packages, provide NLS support. But this is not the case for OpenPKG, because unfortunately still not all vendors support NLS in their programs. So OpenPKG cannot provide NLS for them as a whole, and a half solution was not acceptable to us. Second, we dislike the bloat gettext-based NLS support causes on the filesystem for each package, because in OpenPKG we try to strip down a package to its bare minimum. Third, although the founders of OpenPKG are non-native English speakers, they like the idea that English was and should be kept as the only language used by Unix systems. This further ensures against strange translated messages which often serve to confuse rather than aid an engineer. In a perfect world all vendor packages would ship with the same amount of NLS support (number of supported languages). All translations would
[A] There are many reasons why even packages which are shipped with NLS support are not packaged with NLS support. First, NLS is great if the whole system, i.e., all packages, provide NLS support. But this is not the case for OpenPKG, because unfortunately still not all vendors support NLS in their programs. So OpenPKG cannot provide NLS for them as a whole, and a half solution was not acceptable to us. Second, we dislike the bloat gettext-based NLS support causes on the filesystem for each package, because in OpenPKG we try to strip down a package to its bare minimum. Third, although the founders of OpenPKG are non-native English speakers, they like the idea that English was and should be kept as the only language used by Unix systems. This further ensures against strange translated messages which often serve to confuse rather than aid an engineer. In a perfect world all vendor packages would ship with the same amount of NLS support (number of supported languages). All translations wo
