Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 30 January 2006 20:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:46:28 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | On Monday 30 January 2006 16:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:17:36 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
> | > <flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | > | Also, as repoman complain about linguas_blabla not being a valid
> | > | useflags, all the linguas_* useflags should be listed in use.desc
> | > 
> | > No, part of the point of USE_EXPAND is that they shouldn't. This is
> | > a repoman bug.
> | 
> | I have yet to be enlightened on any merit of USE_EXPAND is so perhaps
> | you could explain as to why there should be
> | user-configured-yet-undocumented options for ebuilds? More precisely,
> | how should they be documented if not via use.desc?
> 
> 1. Because for things like LINGUAS, there are arbitrarily many legal
> values, and documenting them all and keeping the list up to date would
> be extremely difficult.

"More precisely, how should they be documented if not via use.desc?"

> 2. Because USE_EXPAND is used for special USE things like arch and
> userland, and because we undocumented the special arch USE flags
> because they're not user settable.

These variables are internal and not meant to be user configurable.

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