Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

[Dale]

On 01/05/2018 02:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Is this related:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html
>>>
>>> I don't know.  I read that news item and followed its instructions at
>>> the time.  My make conf contains:
>>>
>>> LINGUAS="en en_US"
>>> L10N="en en-US"
>>>
>>>> Most recent thread here:
>>>>
>>>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/29b00839ba5be715d883412011d8a421
>>>
>>> That sounds supicious, but I set L10N as I was supposed to.
>>>
>>> Still, it looks like there are at least 9 packages on my system
>>> installed which are now broken due to linguas_XX USE flag problems.
>>
>> Apparently, even though there are still plenty of packages that aren't
>> ready for the removal LINGUAS as an expanded USE variable, they went
>> ahead and did it.
>>
>> For example, the first one I ran into was iso-codes:
>>
>>     https://bugs.gentoo.org/643594
>>
>> Hopefully the others will also get fixed soon.
>>
>> It's surprising that something as common as cups got broken.
>
> Apparently, cups's LINGUAS brokeness was reported almost two years
> ago, but hasn't been fixed yet:
>
>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/574318
>
> It looks like aspell was just fixed a couple hours ago:
>
>    https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=28feeb4139bfc6d45b8f1353ba167a5757b1c0ea
>
> I think I'll wait a week or two before attempting to update any other
> machines...
>


Yea, sometimes people think everything is ready when some are not.  One 
would think the more used packages would be noticed tho.  Guess not.

That was the only change I recall reading about so I thought it worth a 
mention, just in case it was the cause.

Dale

:-)  :-)