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Andrew Savchenko posted on Tue, 31 May 2016 20:08:10 +0300 as excerpted: |
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> If we are going to do an instant move from LINGUAS to L10N (no graced |
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> period as discussed here on another thread), why to rename variable in |
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> the first place? |
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Because the LINGUAS var is hopelessly tangled up in various build |
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systems... in different ways for different build systems so it's nigh |
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impossible to automatically untangle it. |
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By switching to a var (L10N being the proposed name) that's not actually |
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used in strange ways by the build systems, gentoo's settings won't have |
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unexpected implicit results due to getting tangled up with the build |
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system, only the explicit results managed by the gentoo-level code in the |
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ebuilds/eclasses. |
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That of course being the whole problem LINGUAS turned into such a mess in |
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the first place. In hindsight the mess could have been predicted, but as |
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they say, hindsight is 20/20... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |