Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

["Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 06:17:36AM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> [ebuild   R   ] media-tv/kdetv-0.8.8-r1  USE="-arts -debug -lirc -opengl 
> -xinerama -zvbi" LINGUAS="it% -bg% -br% -ca% -cs% -cy% -da% -de% -el% -en_GB% 
> -es% -et% -fi% -fr% -ga% -gl% -hu% -is% -lt% -mt% -nb% -nl% -pa% -pl% -pt% 
> -pt_BR% -ro% -ru% -rw% -sr% -sr@Latn% -sv% -ta% -tr% -zh_CN%" 0 kB
>...
> the linguas_* useflags should be listed in use.desc (consider that it would 
> take a while, _if_ we decide to go this route, before all packages are 
> updated to do this, but it's silly to pollute the use.local.desc file until 5 

How would this work with packages which treat unset LINGUAS as "install
all languages", and empty but set LINGUAS as "install no languages" (the
way LINGUAS was supposed to work)? When changing between the two, emerge
-pv would show no changes, and there is no way for ebuilds to work
around that. I'm all for telling users what parts of a package are
optional, but incorrect info is worse than no info. (This doesn't apply
to the KDE ebuilds, since they treat empty and unset LINGUAS the same,
but you said all packages.)

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