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

[Grant Edwards]

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.

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