On Tuesday 31 January 2006 06:31, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 20:54, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > 1. Because for things like LINGUAS, there are arbitrarily many legal
> > values, and documenting them all and keeping the list up to date would
> > be extremely difficult.
>
> "More precisely, how should they be documented if not via use.desc?"

considering there's a ton more LINGUAS values than we have USE flags (just run 
`wc` on use.desc and lang.desc), bloating use.desc with LINGUAS settings 
benefits *noone*

we have lang.desc, it is quite populated, what's wrong with having portage 
read that
-mike
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