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From: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:52:15
Message-Id: 42B5A1DB.309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE by Jason Stubbs
1 Jason Stubbs wrote:
2
3 >So there have been many complaints about how USE_EXPANDed flags don't belong
4 >in IUSE. There haven't actually been any reasons given though. :P
5 >
6 >
7 >
8 net-dialup/pppconfig-2.3.11-r1 depends on LINGUAS, but the list of
9 supported languages is created in pkg_unpack, based on what tarball
10 contains.
11
12 The IUSE thing would raise 2 problems:
13 - lower maintainability - not really a major problem
14 - if user wants all languages, it will be forced to select them one by
15 one - now if LINGUAS is empty, all available languages gets installed.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE Sven Wegener <swegener@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND and IUSE Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>