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After reading Donnie's interesting post about how to set VIDEO_CARDS and |
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INPUT_DEVICES in xorg 7, I wondered for a while if LINGUAS should have the |
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same treatment. |
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Defining LINGUAS variable would be useful to allow people to know whether they |
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are going to have special support for their language in a package, but it |
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would also clutter the output quite a bit. I experimented locally with kdetv, |
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that uses LINGUAS variable to condition .po files and documentation |
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generation in a predictable way (as in, the ebuild has to know which |
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languages are available beforehand anyway): |
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[ebuild R ] media-tv/kdetv-0.8.8-r1 USE="-arts -debug -lirc -opengl |
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-xinerama -zvbi" LINGUAS="it% -bg% -br% -ca% -cs% -cy% -da% -de% -el% -en_GB% |
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-es% -et% -fi% -fr% -ga% -gl% -hu% -is% -lt% -mt% -nb% -nl% -pa% -pl% -pt% |
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-pt_BR% -ro% -ru% -rw% -sr% -sr@Latn% -sv% -ta% -tr% -zh_CN%" 0 kB |
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What people think of this? Whatever decision is taken I think it should also |
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be documented somewhere for people to use. |
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Also, as repoman complain about linguas_blabla not being a valid useflags, all |
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the linguas_* useflags should be listed in use.desc (consider that it would |
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take a while, _if_ we decide to go this route, before all packages are |
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updated to do this, but it's silly to pollute the use.local.desc file until 5 |
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packages are using a given language); the descriptions need also to be |
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accurate. |
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(sorry missing signature, I've broken pinentry and waiting for it to be |
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rebuilt by emerge -e world) |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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