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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:41:28AM +0200, Micha?? 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 how |
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> tiny they are. Maintainers are required to keep IUSE up-to-date |
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> and users are forced to rebuild a lot. This is also a QA violation |
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> in terms of invalid use of USE flags. |
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> 2. We hack-unset LINGUAS in ebuilds. This is a lot of effort, easy to |
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> miss and probably would need to repeated for every single phase anyway |
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> due to how global variables are handled in PMS. Additionally, it may |
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> break at some point since those variables are likely expected to be |
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> read-only anyway. |
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> 3. We remove LINGUAS from USE_EXPAND and stop using it. If ebuilds have |
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> a good reason to use flags for localization, we introduce a new, |
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> non-colliding USE_EXPAND for that. We also ask users to replace LINGUAS |
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> with the new flag in their make.conf files. LINGUAS gets the original |
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> upstream behavior back, and we eventually discourage it in favor of new |
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> INSTALL_MASK features (WiP) [2]. |
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> 4. We fix build systems not to do magic depending on whether LINGUAS |
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> is unset or set-to-empty. Instead, we could some special special value |
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> like '-' to signify not installing localizations at all. But that's |
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> upstream thing to do, and breaks backwards compatibility with existing |
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> systems disabling localizations. |
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> Your thoughts? |
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5. An reversed variant of INSTALL_MASK in make.conf, e.g. |
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LOCALE_ALLOW="foo bar fubar" |
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which would block installing files in /usr/share/locale/* and |
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/usr/share/man/* EXCEPT for... |
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/usr/share/locale/foo |
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/usr/share/locale/bar |
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/usr/share/locale/fubar |
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/usr/share/man/foo |
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/usr/share/man/bar |
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/usr/share/man/fubar |
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6. Integrate localepurge into Portage, and run it post install |
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There are some lazy programmers out there who *DO NOT* respect the |
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LINGUAS setting, and splatter files throughout /usr/share/locale/* and |
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/usr/share/man/* regardless. That's the reason "localepurge" was |
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written in the first place. Any proposed solution should take that |
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problem into consideration, and handle it too. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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