Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 17:21:46
Luis Ressel <aranea@aixah.de> napisał(a):

> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:01:34 +0100
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > That's a side goal.
> > 
> > I was thinking of something like:
> > 
> >   INSTALL_MASK="linguas -linguas_XX"
> > 
> > that would remove all linguas except for language XX.
> 
> That would be enough for me. A bit of a duplication of information,
> but if it eases the implementation, that shouldn't be much of a problem.
> 
> But imho it'd be nice if this approach didn't require a separate config
> entry for each language (that'd be 233 entries).

I agree. But I think it's cleaner to have 233 extra files than
third special case there :).

OTOH, we could just make portage use LINGUAS to create implicit
INSTALL_MASK using directory paths. That wouldn't actually require any
magic in INSTALL_MASK itself.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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