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

[Grant Edwards]

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...

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