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On Sat, 21 May 2016 11:00:08 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sat, 21 May 2016, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > I see the following possibilities: |
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> > 1. We start explicitly listing linguas_* in all ebuilds, no matter |
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> > how tiny they are. Maintainers are required to keep IUSE up-to-date |
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> > and users are forced to rebuild a lot. |
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> Why would users have to rebuild more often? Language support in a |
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> package will change with a version bump, when they must rebuild in any |
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> case. |
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Except whenever: |
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1. developer fails to update lingua list, and needs to do so afterwards, |
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2. user changes his preference (i.e. I just built my system and figured |
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out I should really strip those damn locales), |
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3. user attempts to use binary packages (unless someone goes for |
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providing 2^n binary package variants). |
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> > This is also a QA violation in terms of invalid use of USE flags. |
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> I fail to see why this would be a QA violation. |
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It falls into the rule for controlling installation of small files. |
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Most of localizations are < 20 KiB. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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