[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Masterplan for solving LINGUAS problems

[Martin Vaeth]

Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> If more than 95% of ebuilds are broken, this proves that a concept is
> broken.
>
> Well, feel free to live in your fairy land.

I prefer to have at least 5% of the ebuilds working and the other
being fixable (if their maintainers want to spend the effort)
than to remove a concept which breaks also these 5% and turns
all ebuilds non-fixable, in principle.

> I'm not going to continue the discussion if you are so blinded by
> LINGUAS that you are even unable to understand what I'm talking about,
> and consistently mix the LINGUAS concept and INSTALL_MASK concept,

...says the man who mixes this wildly in the first posting by
suggesting to recommend the user to not use LINGUAS and use
INSTALL_MASK *instead*; as a reply to my warning to not mix
these completely unrelated concepts.