Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

Adrian Bunk
2007-06-11T00:21:52Z

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:41:38PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:52:28 +0200, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> escribió:
>
> > I advocated that they should stay out back then.
> > But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles
> > having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po etc araound.
> >
> > Any opinion about the .po files?
>
> These days the configuration menus are not something that users need to
> read, they're more like a developer tool. IMO there's not much value in it,
> because the people who read it already know english most of the times.

The majority of Kconfig users are _not_ kernel developers.

There are many different reasons why people compile their own kernel,
and "sysadmin who knows his hardware and the filesystems of his disks"
is really sufficient for compiling your own kernel.

Whether non-English Kconfig texts are important might be a question, but
if there are people doing the translation work there's no problem with
it.

cu
Adrian

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