Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS, L10N, and local-gen

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:57:57 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>> The point of the news item is not to make it work now, it already
>>> does. The advice is there to help you get your system into a state
>>> where it won't stop working when the next stage of the switch occurs.
>> I get that but that didn't make much sense either.  I ended up using
>> trial and error to get the setting correct since the news item and the
>> link wasn't much help.  About all it did was let me know that there was
>> a change but as to helping understand that change, not much help there
>> if any. 
> It made sense to me. To paraphrase:
>
> Using LINGUAS sucks so we are phasing it out in favour of L10N.
>
> So set L10N to whatever LINGUAS is currently set to, with one change
>
> We are using newer style naming with country codes, so replace _ with -
> in things like en_GB.
>
> That's it. If the odd package wants to rebuild, it's because that package
> had already moved over to use L10N, so the last update would have built
> it with all languages.
>
>

Neil,

Keep in mind, I didn't start this thread.  I'm not the only one who read
the news item and it not make good sense.  I might add, I followed some
of the discussion on -dev and even that didn't help the news item and I
sort of had a general idea of what it was about.  If I wasn't already
somewhat aware of it, that news item wouldn't have been very little help. 

Dale

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