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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:41:59
Message-Id: 200601310839.27714.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS? by Jason Stubbs
1 On Tuesday 31 January 2006 06:31, Jason Stubbs wrote:
2 > On Monday 30 January 2006 20:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > 1. Because for things like LINGUAS, there are arbitrarily many legal
4 > > values, and documenting them all and keeping the list up to date would
5 > > be extremely difficult.
6 >
7 > "More precisely, how should they be documented if not via use.desc?"
8
9 considering there's a ton more LINGUAS values than we have USE flags (just run
10 `wc` on use.desc and lang.desc), bloating use.desc with LINGUAS settings
11 benefits *noone*
12
13 we have lang.desc, it is quite populated, what's wrong with having portage
14 read that
15 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS? Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>