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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: l10n.eclass
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:57:07
Message-Id: 20120720075457.4cccea26@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: l10n.eclass by Mike Gilbert
1 On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:34:41 -0400
2 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
4 > wrote:
5 > > On 07/19/2012 06:14 AM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
6 > >> Could be that Portage re-exports a sanitized
7 > >> LINGUAS tough, but I doubt it.
8 > >
9 > > Portage does sanitize it if there are any linguas_* flags in IUSE,
10 > > otherwise it lets the variable pass through without sanitizing it.
11 >
12 > That's good; we definitely don't want to "sanitize" it if there are no
13 > linuguas_* flags in IUSE. This would break LINUGUAS support for many
14 > autotools/gettext based packages, where the autotools code parses
15 > LINGUAS directly and the ebuild does nothing with it.
16
17 If there aren't any linguas_* flags in IUSE, LINGUAS should be empty,
18 and will be in future EAPIs. Without that, USE dependencies on
19 USE_EXPAND variables don't work.
20
21 --
22 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: l10n.eclass Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: l10n.eclass Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>