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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Masterplan for solving LINGUAS problems
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 02:32:20
Message-Id: pan$d256c$c251451$377b9d0a$ac1df1ea@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Masterplan for solving LINGUAS problems by Andrew Savchenko
1 Andrew Savchenko posted on Tue, 31 May 2016 20:08:10 +0300 as excerpted:
2
3 > If we are going to do an instant move from LINGUAS to L10N (no graced
4 > period as discussed here on another thread), why to rename variable in
5 > the first place?
6
7 Because the LINGUAS var is hopelessly tangled up in various build
8 systems... in different ways for different build systems so it's nigh
9 impossible to automatically untangle it.
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11 By switching to a var (L10N being the proposed name) that's not actually
12 used in strange ways by the build systems, gentoo's settings won't have
13 unexpected implicit results due to getting tangled up with the build
14 system, only the explicit results managed by the gentoo-level code in the
15 ebuilds/eclasses.
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17 That of course being the whole problem LINGUAS turned into such a mess in
18 the first place. In hindsight the mess could have been predicted, but as
19 they say, hindsight is 20/20...
20
21 --
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23 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
24 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman