[gentoo-user] Firefox and USE flags

[gentoo-user] Firefox and USE flags

[Peter Humphrey]

Greetings,

I found a Gentoo binpkg of firefox yesterday, to use which I had only to set
L10N="-en-GB*" against www-client/firefox in package.use; all other settings
were all right as they were.

I did that and the binpkg was fetched and installed. Today, portage wants to
ignore that USE flag and revert to compiling locally, thus:

[ebuild   R    ] www-client/firefox-128.10.1:esr::gentoo [...] L10N="en-GB* [...]

But:

# grep -r en-GB /etc
/etc/portage/make.conf:L10N="en-GB en"
/etc/portage/package.use/firefox:www-client/firefox     L10N="-en-GB*" [...]

Have I missed something obvious again?

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and USE flags

[Eli Schwartz]

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On 5/21/25 10:01 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I found a Gentoo binpkg of firefox yesterday, to use which I had only to set
> L10N="-en-GB*" against www-client/firefox in package.use; all other settings
> were all right as they were.
> 
> I did that and the binpkg was fetched and installed. Today, portage wants to
> ignore that USE flag and revert to compiling locally, thus:
> 
> [ebuild   R    ] www-client/firefox-128.10.1:esr::gentoo [...] L10N="en-GB* [...]
> 
> But:
> 
> # grep -r en-GB /etc
> /etc/portage/make.conf:L10N="en-GB en"
> /etc/portage/package.use/firefox:www-client/firefox     L10N="-en-GB*" [...]
> 
> Have I missed something obvious again?


That doesn't look like a valid package.use line. See `man 5 portage`
under "package.use", in particular,

> USE flags can be prefixed with USE_EXPAND name followed by a colon (:)
> and a space. In this case, all the names following it are treated
> as values for the USE_EXPAND.


So you should have used,

www-client/firefox    L10N: -en-GB


Note no glob used. -* is documented, but not partial matches, so I don't
know where you got it from. :)


-- 
Eli Schwartz

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and USE flags

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday, 21 May 2025 15:40:22 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 5/21/25 10:01 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:

--->8

> > Have I missed something obvious again?
> 
> That doesn't look like a valid package.use line. See `man 5 portage`
> under "package.use", in particular,
> 
> > USE flags can be prefixed with USE_EXPAND name followed by a colon (:)
> > and a space. In this case, all the names following it are treated
> > as values for the USE_EXPAND.
> 
> So you should have used,
> 
> www-client/firefox    L10N: -en-GB
> 
> 
> Note no glob used. -* is documented, but not partial matches, so I don't
> know where you got it from. :)

You're right of course, Eli. I went away and did something else for a while, 
then came back and did two things: 1. Made an entry in package.env; 2. Removed 
the package.use firefox line.

So I now have 'L10N="en-GB en"' in make.conf, 'www-client/firefox     
nol10n.conf' in package.env, 'L10N="en"' in env/nol10n.conf and nothing in 
package.use.

All is now well.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.