Re: [gentoo-dev] IUSE and LINGUAS?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:46:28 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
wrote:
| On Monday 30 January 2006 16:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:17:36 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
| > <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
| > | Also, as repoman complain about linguas_blabla not being a valid
| > | useflags, all the linguas_* useflags should be listed in use.desc
| > 
| > No, part of the point of USE_EXPAND is that they shouldn't. This is
| > a repoman bug.
| 
| I have yet to be enlightened on any merit of USE_EXPAND is so perhaps
| you could explain as to why there should be
| user-configured-yet-undocumented options for ebuilds? More precisely,
| how should they be documented if not via use.desc?

1. Because for things like LINGUAS, there are arbitrarily many legal
values, and documenting them all and keeping the list up to date would
be extremely difficult.

2. Because USE_EXPAND is used for special USE things like arch and
userland, and because we undocumented the special arch USE flags
because they're not user settable.

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