Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 30 January 2006 11:15, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 06:17, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > Defining LINGUAS variable would be useful to allow people to know whether
> > they are going to have special support for their language in a package,
> > but it would also clutter the output quite a bit.
>
> Okay then.. I'm still looking locally how it appears, and I'm thinking it's
> really useful to have LINGUAS told in emerge -pv and -av.

it makes a the -pv output unreadable and thus useless ... although if you do 
something like -pvv, then the user can expect to get a lot of output ...

of course this still doesnt address the pita maintenance issue

> If somebody has a list of those variables, I would add them, it seems to me
> the most sensible way to do that, it would add documentation allowing
> people to know what they are going to do. Also, as use.desc is
> alphabetically sorted, all the linguas_* variables will stay together.

no, we have lang.desc already, dont clutter use.desc with this crap
-mike

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