From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD2B1382CD for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB8DB941CE; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f173.google.com (mail-yw0-f173.google.com [209.85.161.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8620DE0B4F for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-f173.google.com with SMTP id i12so121064335ywa.1 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:03:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZjzfFSvn38xMDSpJP6sAwQa8jBujKLhX27As85yOj9w=; b=l4iigv7oawbT8t6Zh5H1ESFIK69vbZCNMjnIWc5Twu4+4TBCRjPHPWloRQelNFZY8z hYecxYI1PiEXDXKvSHvLoXXFE3vd26n86P3gCNW9kW9KWWl3qRNZ1lOwlrGLonNu+d1i qrCfkZTUra7BLVGi7eJVtXiDedDbjPfkfCb7XKl7U2DA1XnjWWyJRqVk31wopZE8PVkh 4MTk4187u1nbPjo2FELLzboBJkZXjuStNzLKWHDUNuWWQzmllP4sVvWduyqckqFgKM9G HUUZW8Bq6VNKg0A7PupIT6E63CBD/m/DTGqq1Gd37gph1eu6hzZouRB5iuB6n+VDgOHr TZTA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZjzfFSvn38xMDSpJP6sAwQa8jBujKLhX27As85yOj9w=; b=SGxrElnUP8WUQRG8vkN1gshPwMqdTKwDYJMrziwUELKoS25G7caRqvW9nC4Lz0rFZC XBJ9isw4utVlZED9gGKTnpZL4nRI9KXc6fnWWjPz/z0sIIwA/SIZet+aasiQHXn5H7Zy rFOkSpypRS5Tf+etAz4UMSlzSgldFmElYdlcGyqonhNG19/8OEsrdJYAFK+JA6KPT0Mn WssedUxKPHatk3YWbo59uzjvn0XWiB7XC1/i+qHyGt0gb/0UErPiR7mntm0bdAHijNtl ZwYKB4XxzWzpWxVQM2S1XKzJ7imlU0A6W8d1JJ5Kare768qq3w+4d9z5JOkiu8d2X+qc R//g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tIxpHbtuwpeSvPghugOSt1Nbbc5qfGZTE08qeMC7l/VL0ROqWNO7/h/t1FEdR3mtQ== X-Received: by 10.129.48.85 with SMTP id w82mr6555386yww.152.1466870582651; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-107-26.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.107.26]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q7sm5541522ywg.16.2016.06.25.09.03.01 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS, L10N, and local-gen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <87k2headgp.fsf@nyu.edu> <576D49AB.1090104@gmail.com> <2459420.j28OyKav2d@peak> <576D5484.9050200@gmail.com> <576D9833.6010600@gmail.com> <576DC67F.9010700@gmail.com> <20160625093145.7a8bcf09@digimed.co.uk> <576E9BF5.6020208@gmail.com> <20160625165541.57d3b49e@digimed.co.uk> From: Dale Message-ID: <576EAB35.6040704@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:03:01 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160625165541.57d3b49e@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b8aaaf03-9a07-4bee-8045-4fcad61bf396 X-Archives-Hash: 1c010227008eb5ce5200ab234c2ac6ee 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 :-) :-)