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Ühel kenal päeval, K, 01.06.2016 kell 15:19, kirjutas Michał Górny: |
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> As for LINGUAS, it should be left as a toy for advanced users and not |
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> presented as a recommended solution. |
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There is nothing advanced in it for the user, only the mess we have |
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created with package manager behaviour and mis-use of it (the order |
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matters case; which I believe is long eradicated). |
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We are a source based distribution, and gettext/intltool upstream |
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LINGUAS behaviour is perfect advantage for our main use case of |
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customizing ones own system and almost always building things from |
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source, only using binary packages before an upgrade as a backup, if at |
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all. |
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So it's natural to use the way that really build only the support you |
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want. This is what LINGUAS gives you, when the PM doesn't happen to |
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munge it. |
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Hiding this away under some toy for advanced users is not in our spirit |
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of Gentoo, as far as I would judge. |
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But this is a matter of documentation at this point, in principle I |
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agree that SRC_URI extra downloads should be under a different naming. |
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INSTALL_MASK groups for locales is what I would consider a convenience |
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for binary package builders in a wide environment where language choice |
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to the end user preferably gets filtered on deployment in a site- or |
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machine-specific manner. Or a toy for advanced binary distribution |
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creators, if you will. A way for binary packages to provide almost as |
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good support for LINGUAS as source packages (but not quite). |
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That said, supporting our binary package ecosystem is very important, |
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and I applaud these efforts. The proposed INSTALL_MASK improvements are |
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very useful for many other cases as well. For source-based users as |
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well (openrc init scripts, systemd unit files, gtk-doc documentation, |
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etc) |
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Either way, the masterplan works out, I just don't think we need to |
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wait for INSTALL_MASK groups here in any way. The reminder is a matter |
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of documentation, a matter of perspective. |
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This l10n.eclass PLOCALES nonsense needs to go ASAP. |
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